Returns the value at a given percentile of a dataset.
Sample Usage
PERCENTILE(A2:A100,A2)
PERCENTILE(A2:A100,0.67)
Syntax
PERCENTILE(data, percentile)
data
- The array or range containing the dataset to consider.percentile
- The percentile whose value withindata
will be calculated and returned.
Notes
- The value returned by
PERCENTILE
is not necessarily a member ofdata
as this function interpolates between values to calculate the alpha percentile. - The 50th percentile, that is setting
percentile
to0.5
is equivalent to usingMEDIAN
with the same dataset.
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 dataset.
QUARTILE: Returns a value nearest to a specified quartile of a dataset.
PERCENTRANK: Returns the percentage rank (percentile) of a specified value in a dataset.
MINA: Returns the minimum numeric value in a dataset.
MIN: Returns the minimum value in a numeric dataset.
MEDIAN: Returns the median value in a numeric dataset.
MAXA: Returns the maximum numeric value in a dataset.
MAX: Returns the maximum value in a numeric dataset.
LARGE: Returns the nth largest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.
AVERAGEA: Returns the numerical average value in a dataset.
AVERAGE: The AVERAGE function returns the numerical average value in a dataset, ignoring text.