How to find the top 5% observations

Hi,
I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the
bottom 5% observations. How can I do this?
thank you very much

You want to "chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5%"?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "chop off".

Delete them from the list?
Filter them out?
Perform a calculation on the list, but excluding the top/bottom 5%?
or something else?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Bin" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the
> bottom 5% observations. How can I do this?
> thank you very much

sorry for the confusion.
I want to find the cut-off point and delete the observations above the
point(top 5%) and below the point (bottom 5%)
thank you

"Ron Coderre" wrote:

> You want to "chop off the top 5% and the bottom 5%"?
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "chop off".
>
> Delete them from the list?
> Filter them out?
> Perform a calculation on the list, but excluding the top/bottom 5%?
> or something else?
>
> ***********
> Regards,
> Ron
>
> XL2002, WinXP
>
>
> "Bin" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the
> > bottom 5% observations. How can I do this?
> > thank you very much

Use Autofilter:

Let's say we have a header cell in A1 and data from A2 on down.
Sort this data.
In B1 and C1 put header information
in B2 put
=ROW() and copy down
in C2 put
=B2/MAX(B:B) and copy down

Then in C1 switch-on Autofilter and select Custom:
Greater than .05
and
Less than .95

The top 5% and bottom 5% should be filtered out.
--
Gary''s Student


"Bin" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the
> bottom 5% observations. How can I do this?
> thank you very much

this works
thanks a lot

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

> Use Autofilter:
>
> Let's say we have a header cell in A1 and data from A2 on down.
> Sort this data.
> In B1 and C1 put header information
> in B2 put
> =ROW() and copy down
> in C2 put
> =B2/MAX(B:B) and copy down
>
> Then in C1 switch-on Autofilter and select Custom:
> Greater than .05
> and
> Less than .95
>
> The top 5% and bottom 5% should be filtered out.
> --
> Gary''s Student
>
>
> "Bin" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have an array of data, and would like to chop off the top 5% and the
> > bottom 5% observations. How can I do this?
> > thank you very much