https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Confidence-Interval-for-Median/m-p/11643#M1423 Is there a way to construct a confidence interval for a median in SAS. I know how to construct a confidence interval for a mean using PROC UNIVARIATE, but don't see anything similar for the median. Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:05:32 GMT gjwsas 2011-06-12T17:05:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Confidence-Interval-for-Median/m-p/11643#M1423 Is there a way to construct a confidence interval for a median in SAS. I know how to construct a confidence interval for a mean using PROC UNIVARIATE, but don't see anything similar for the median. Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:05:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Confidence-Interval-for-Median/m-p/11643#M1423 gjwsas 2011-06-12T17:05:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Confidence-Interval-for-Median/m-p/11644#M1424 Because the median is not based on any parametric assumptions about the data (except a continuous distribution), there is no closed form method to get the CI. You can, however, get a CI by bootstrapping. See<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/bootplot.htm" target="_blank">http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/bootplot.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> Google search<BR /> bootstrap site:sas.com<BR /> for several good articles and a macro.<BR /> <BR /> Doc Muhlbaier<BR /> Duke Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:03:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Confidence-Interval-for-Median/m-p/11644#M1424 Doc_Duke 2011-06-13T01:03:00Z