MicroStrategy vs SAS percentiles.

[Barney1998]

Dear all,

I wish someone know the answer in this problem. I want to check one report which comes from microstrategy software. (I don't  know if you have experience on this) .The problem is SAS and microstrategy have different ways to calculate percentiles .

I know how each other make its calculation but I wondering if someone knows if exist more easy way as option in proc summary .

thank you,

Best wishes!

[ballardw]

Don't know anything about MicroStrategy.

If you are using SAS Proc Means/Summary to compute quantiles SAS has multiple methods depending on the settings of the options Qntldef (5 options) and Qmethod (2 options though P2 only allows Qntldef=5) (plus Qmarkers if using the Qmethod=P2). So you may want to check the online help in SAS where it defines the effects of the options in the section on Quantile and Related Statistics. You may be able to duplicate the MicroStragegy calculations if they provide sufficient documentation.