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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Reporting => Topic started by: recklessonemb on 18 Aug 2022 12:16:57 PM

Title: COGNOS Percentile Function
Post by: recklessonemb on 18 Aug 2022 12:16:57 PM
I am struggling to get COGNOS to report a 90th percentile value that is what I would expect:
I have a report that has a simple duration value in hours in each row (nulls filtered out) called the TPIA and a calculated field that is just simply percentile(TPIA)
The value it reports for a 90th percentile is very different than what Excel reports for the same dataset using the percentile.inc function and is also NOT 90% of the way down an ordered list of the values.
Can somebody explain why this might be?