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  /**
   * compute percentile from an unsorted Spark RDD
   * @param data: input data set of Long integers
   * @param tile: percentile to compute (eg. 85 percentile)
   * @return value of input data at the specified percentile
   */
  def computePercentile(data: RDD[Long], tile: Double): Double = {
    // NIST method; data to be sorted in ascending order
    val r = data.sortBy(x => x)
    val c = r.count()