Hallo Samuel,
the definition of precentiles is not unique. SAS has 5 methods. The exact
number in SPSS I don't know. Details you will find in the documentations.
I think this question is discussed in this group also. Maybe you are lucky
searching this group.
Regards
Reinhart Willers
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008 09:59
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> Hi All,
> I tried to find percentiles through SAS and SPSS. The results, to my
> utter surprise, were different though I provided the same input data.
> your help needed to reconcile the results.
>
> thanks,
> Sami
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