How to find the top 5% observations
Hi,
I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5% observations. How can I do this? thank you very much |
How to find the top 5% observations
You want to "chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5%"?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "chop off". Delete them from the list? Filter them out? Perform a calculation on the list, but excluding the top/bottom 5%? or something else? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Bin" wrote: Hi, I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5% observations. How can I do this? thank you very much |
How to find the top 5% observations
sorry for the confusion.
I want to find the cut-off point and delete the observations above the point(top 5%) and below the point (bottom 5%) thank you "Ron Coderre" wrote: You want to "chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5%"? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "chop off". Delete them from the list? Filter them out? Perform a calculation on the list, but excluding the top/bottom 5%? or something else? *********** Regards, Ron XL2002, WinXP "Bin" wrote: Hi, I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5% observations. How can I do this? thank you very much |
How to find the top 5% observations
Use Autofilter:
Let's say we have a header cell in A1 and data from A2 on down. Sort this data. In B1 and C1 put header information in B2 put =ROW() and copy down in C2 put =B2/MAX(B:B) and copy down Then in C1 switch-on Autofilter and select Custom: Greater than .05 and Less than .95 The top 5% and bottom 5% should be filtered out. -- Gary''s Student "Bin" wrote: Hi, I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5% observations. How can I do this? thank you very much |
How to find the top 5% observations
this works
thanks a lot "Gary''s Student" wrote: Use Autofilter: Let's say we have a header cell in A1 and data from A2 on down. Sort this data. In B1 and C1 put header information in B2 put =ROW() and copy down in C2 put =B2/MAX(B:B) and copy down Then in C1 switch-on Autofilter and select Custom: Greater than .05 and Less than .95 The top 5% and bottom 5% should be filtered out. -- Gary''s Student "Bin" wrote: Hi, I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5% observations. How can I do this? thank you very much |
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