Thanks for the suggestion!

I took the liberty of opening an issue about it in github:
https://github.com/neo4j/community/issues/74

Andrés

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:15 PM, F. De Haes <fi...@nibewege.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A feature that would be nice to add to the Cypher language features AVG,
> SUM, etc. would be the ability to use a percentile function.
>
> In Oracle: percentile_cont and percentile_disc
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile
>
> A use case could be to ask for certain percentile (e.g. 90) for a 'time
> elapsed' property on a bunch of selected 'helpdesk call' nodes with status
> 'closed'. The result is the time in which 90% of the closed 'helpdesk call'
> nodes were solved. 10% of the selected nodes have a 'time elapsed' larger
> than the result.
>
> You might know a median, which is actually percentile 50.
>
> Greetings,
> Filip
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