topic Re: hypergeometric quantile function parameters in SAS Programming

hypergeometric quantile function parameters

Chuck_White — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:11:25 GMT

SAS documentation I've seen for the quantile function includes an example for the hypergeometric function but I'm having a hard time figuring out the parameters of the function. Contrary to the usual level of SAS documentation, I don't see where the parameters are listed and my hunting and pecking for parameters isn't working. Any suggestions?

More specifically, the function is as follows:

quantile('hyper', p,x,y,z) so..., what are x, y, and z.

Thanks.

Re: hypergeometric quantile function parameters

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:49:37 GMT

Hello @Chuck_White,

Generally, the documentation of the CDF and PDF function (which the documentation of the QUANTILE function refers to) is more detailed and contains both formulae and descriptions of the parameters.

@Chuck_White wrote:

quantile('hyper', p,x,y,z) so..., what are x, y, and z.

In the case of the hypergeometric distribution:

x is the size of the population.
y is the size of the subset of interest.
z is the size of the sample drawn from the population without replacement.

Re: hypergeometric quantile function parameters

Chuck_White — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:46:11 GMT

Better yet, there was a link within the quantile function that defined the parameters. I hate it when I miss stuff like that.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Chuck