Date:         Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:15:06 -0400
Reply-To:     "Horne, Jim - James S" <Jim.S.Horne@LOWES.COM>
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From:         "Horne, Jim - James S" <Jim.S.Horne@LOWES.COM>
Subject:      A question about Percentiles
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I know it's easy in base SAS to determine the 90th percentile of a
variable - PROC MEANS does it very easily.  But, is there a way short of
brute-force programming to determine what observation in the original
dataset provided that 90th percentile  value?  

Jim Horne
ITE-Large Systems & Messaging
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
336-658-4959
jim.horne@lowes.com