PERCENTILE function

Returns the value at a given percentile of a data set.

Sample usage

PERCENTILE(A2:A100,A2)

PERCENTILE(A2:A100,0.67)

Syntax

PERCENTILE(data, percentile)

• data – The array or range containing the data set to consider.

• percentile – The percentile for which the value within data will be calculated and returned.

Notes

• The value returned by PERCENTILE is not necessarily a member of data as this function interpolates between values to calculate the alpha percentile.

• The 50th percentile (that is, setting percentile to 0.5) is equivalent to using MEDIAN with the same data set.

See also

SMALL: Returns the nth smallest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.

RANK: Returns the rank of a specified value in a data set.

QUARTILE: Returns a value nearest to a specified quartile of a data set.

PERCENTRANK: Returns the percentage rank (percentile) of a specified value in a data set.

MINA: Returns the minimum numerical value in a data set.

MIN: Returns the minimum value in a numerical data set.

MEDIAN: Returns the median value in a numerical data set.

MAXA: Returns the maximum numerical value in a data set.

MAX: Returns the maximum value in a numerical data set.

LARGE: Returns the nth largest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.

AVERAGEA: Returns the numerical average value in a data set.

AVERAGE: The AVERAGE function returns the numerical average value in a dataset, ignoring text.

Examples