PthPercentile (P, fld), PthPercentile (P, fld, condFld), PthPercentile (P, fld, condFld, cond)

Basic and Crystal syntax.

Arguments
Returns

Number or Currency value.

Action

Calculates the value for a specified percentile (P) in a Number or Currency field.

Examples

The following examples are applicable to both Basic and Crystal syntax:

PthPercentile(20, {Customer.LAST YEAR'S SALES})

Returns $2302 as the value at the 20th percentile (if 20% of {Customer.LAST YEAR'S SALES are less than $2302

PthPercentile(P, {Customer.LAST YEAR'S SALES}, {Customer.REGION})

Groups the Last Year's Sales field by region and returns the value at percentile P in the Last Year's Sales field per region.

PthPercentile(P,{orders.ORDER AMOUNT}, {Customer.REGION}, "monthly")

Groups values in the Amount field by region, then returns the value at percentile P in the Amount field for each region, per month.

Comments

P = 50 (the 50th Percentile) is the same value returned by the Median (fld), Median (fld, condFld), Median (fld, condFld, cond) function (the median value).

Note:    Using this function in a formula forces the formula to be evaluated at print time.

For more information on evaluation time considerations, see Evaluation Time functions.



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