fyi quartile definition from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartile.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Wensui Liu <liuwensui@gmail.com> wrote:

> your investigator is very interesting and hope she understand quartile is > relative position / rank of a value in the variable range. > while there has to be min and max in a variable, no guarantee that there is > a record falling exactly into q1/median/q3. the only reason that > 1 records > at Qx is due to ties. > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Dave <david.brewer@uc.edu> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Let me start off by stating that I am not a mathematician or a >> statistician, just a lowly SAS programmer. >> >> I ran a PROC MEANS to calculate Q1-Q4, MIN and MAX for a variable called >> MPR. When I showed the results to the investigator, she wants to know how >> many people are in each quartile (or how many in MIN or MAX). >> >> Is this possible without a lot of work on my end? >> >> Thanks all for your help. >> Dave >> > > > > -- > ============================== > WenSui Liu > Credit Risk Manager, 53 Bancorp > wensui.liu@53.com > 513-295-4370 > ============================== >

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