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# numpy.nanpercentile

`numpy.``nanpercentile`(a, q, axis=None, out=None, overwrite_input=False, interpolation='linear', keepdims=<class numpy._globals._NoValue>)

  Compute the qth percentile of the data along the specified axis, while ignoring nan values.

  Returns the qth percentile(s) of the array elements.

  New in version 1.9.0.

  Parameters: | a : array_like Input array or object that can be converted to an array. q : float in range of [0,100] (or sequence of floats) Percentile to compute, which must be between 0 and 100 inclusive. axis : {int, sequence of int, None}, optional Axis or axes along which the percentiles are computed. The default is to compute the percentile(s) along a flattened version of the array. A sequence of axes is supported since version 1.9.0. out : ndarray, optional Alternative output array in which to place the result. It must have the same shape and buffer length as the expected output, but the type (of the output) will be cast if necessary. overwrite_input : bool, optional If True, then allow use of memory of input array a for calculations. The input array will be modified by the call to `percentile`. This will save memory when you do not need to preserve the contents of the input array. In this case you should not make any assumptions about the contents of the input a after this function completes – treat it as undefined. Default is False. If a is not already an array, this parameter will have no effect as a will be converted to an array internally regardless of the value of this parameter. interpolation : {‘linear’, ‘lower’, ‘higher’, ‘midpoint’, ‘nearest’} This optional parameter specifies the interpolation method to use when the desired quantile lies between two data points `i < j`: linear: `i + (j - i) * fraction`, where `fraction` is the fractional part of the index surrounded by `i` and `j`. lower: `i`. higher: `j`. nearest: `i` or `j`, whichever is nearest. midpoint: `(i + j) / 2`. keepdims : bool, optional If this is set to True, the axes which are reduced are left in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option, the result will broadcast correctly against the original array a. If this is anything but the default value it will be passed through (in the special case of an empty array) to the `mean` function of the underlying array. If the array is a sub-class and `mean` does not have the kwarg keepdims this will raise a RuntimeError.
  Returns: | percentile : scalar or ndarray If q is a single percentile and axis=None, then the result is a scalar. If multiple percentiles are given, first axis of the result corresponds to the percentiles. The other axes are the axes that remain after the reduction of a. If the input contains integers or floats smaller than `float64`, the output data-type is `float64`. Otherwise, the output data-type is the same as that of the input. If out is specified, that array is returned instead.

  See also

  `nanmean`, `nanmedian`, `percentile`, `median`, `mean`

  Notes

  Given a vector `V` of length `N`, the `q`-th percentile of `V` is the value `q/100` of the way from the minimum to the maximum in a sorted copy of `V`. The values and distances of the two nearest neighbors as well as the interpolation parameter will determine the percentile if the normalized ranking does not match the location of `q` exactly. This function is the same as the median if `q=50`, the same as the minimum if `q=0` and the same as the maximum if `q=100`.

  Examples

      >>> a = np.array([[10., 7., 4.], [3., 2., 1.]])
      >>> a[0][1] = np.nan
      >>> a
      array([[ 10.,  nan,   4.],
            [  3.,   2.,   1.]])
      >>> np.percentile(a, 50)
      nan
      >>> np.nanpercentile(a, 50)
      3.5
      >>> np.nanpercentile(a, 50, axis=0)
      array([ 6.5,  2.,   2.5])
      >>> np.nanpercentile(a, 50, axis=1, keepdims=True)
      array([[ 7.],
             [ 2.]])
      >>> m = np.nanpercentile(a, 50, axis=0)
      >>> out = np.zeros_like(m)
      >>> np.nanpercentile(a, 50, axis=0, out=out)
      array([ 6.5,  2.,   2.5])
      >>> m
      array([ 6.5,  2. ,  2.5])

      >>> b = a.copy()
      >>> np.nanpercentile(b, 50, axis=1, overwrite_input=True)
      array([  7.,  2.])
      >>> assert not np.all(a==b)