Quantiles from MEANS, UNIVARIATE and RANK - SAS Support Communities

Barite | Level 11

Barite | Level 11

Quantiles from MEANS, UNIVARIATE and RANK

Posted 08-07-2012 08:15 PM (917 views)

Hi everyone.

I wonder why the quartiles generated from proc rank is not the same as that generated from proc means and proc univariate?

Thanks in advance.

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Opal | Level 21

Opal | Level 21

Re: Quantiles from MEANS, UNIVARIATE and RANK

Posted 08-07-2012 10:10 PM (865 views) | In reply to Miracle

There are many ways to compute percentiles (quantiles), 5 methods are available in UNIVARIATE :

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/63963/HTML/default/viewer.htm#procstat_univaria...

PG

PG

Barite | Level 11

Barite | Level 11

Re: Quantiles from MEANS, UNIVARIATE and RANK

Posted 08-07-2012 11:52 PM (865 views) | In reply to PGStats

Thanks PG for the information.

I'll have a read.