Calculating percentiles using individual cells instead of an array.

mcb123

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Office Version
  1. 365
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  1. MacOS
So I need to calculate the 95th and 5th percentile for a specific set of cells. However, my data is 10s of thousands of rows long as it is temperatures from every day of the year over a period of 30-100 years. So I want to work out the 95th percentile for the temperature on January 1st of every year.

I know the formula for the percentile function requires an array but my data isn't in this format.

I know this formula is incorrect but in theory, I need something along the lines of:
=percentile(B2;B368;B773,0.95)

Thanks!!
 

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I'm not familiar with the Mac version of Excel, but hopefully this works for you...

VBA Code:
=PERCENTILE((B2,B368,B773),0.95)
 
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