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Percentile of the Mean

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:49 am
by Avwokeni
The percentile of the median is 50. This means that if the median of a
distribution were 66, then 50 percent of the observations are 66 and below.
However, the percentile of the mean value is not readily known. To ask,
suppose the mean of a distribution were 74, what is the equivalent
percentile? Could someone help with the syntax to calculate the percentile
of the mean?

Dr Avwokeni

Re: Percentile of the Mean

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 6:33 am
by EViews Gareth
Obvious, if not slick, method is simply:

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smpl if x<=@mean(x) scalar mypercentile = @obssmpl/@obsrange*100

Re: Percentile of the Mean

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:36 pm
by Avwokeni
:lol: It works, but not so obvious as you remarked. Many thanks