{"id":760,"date":"2019-04-19T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=760"},"modified":"2019-04-19T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T08:50:01","slug":"the-percentile-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-percentile-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The PERCENTILE function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It returns the k-th percentile of values in a range. This function has been replaced by two new functions and you should avoid using it unless it is absolutely necessary. The new functions are <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PERCENTILE.INC (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-percentile-inc-function\/\" target=\"_blank\">PERCENTILE.INC<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-percentile-exc-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PERCENTILE.EXC (opens in a new tab)\">PERCENTILE.EXC<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>PERCENTILE<\/strong>(<strong>array<\/strong>,<strong>k<\/strong>)<\/p><cite><strong>array<\/strong>: Required. The array or range of data that defines relative standing.<br><strong>k<\/strong>: Required. The percentile value in the range 0..1, inclusive<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An empty array or a k&lt;0 or a k&gt;1  return the #NUM! error<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If k is nonnumeric, it returns the #VALUE! error value<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If k is not a multiple of 1\/(n &#8211; 1), it interpolates to determine the value at the k-th percentile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an example of how to use the PERCENTILE function:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the cell B11 calculate the 40th percentile of the cell range B3:M6 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"In cell B11 calculate the 40th percentile of the cell range B3:M6.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EwQypWMFRyQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It returns the k-th percentile of values in a range. This function has been replaced by two new functions and you should avoid using it unless it is absolutely necessary. The new functions are PERCENTILE.INC and PERCENTILE.EXC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,14],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functions","tag-percentile","tag-statistical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}