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QUARTILE Function in Excel
It is one of the statistical functions of Excel. The functions are used to find the various quartiles of a data set. A quartile is just a quantile. There are three quartiles: the first quartile (Q1) is the middle number between the smallest and median data set values. The second quartile (Q2) is the median of the data. The third quartile (Q3) is the middle value between the median of the data set and the highest value. It can also return the data set's minimum and maximum values along with quartiles. For example, the first quartile Q1 divides the lowest.
Formula
The syntax of the QUARTILE formula is as follows:
Parameters
As it is clear from the syntax shown above, it has two mandatory parameters, which are explained below:
Data: The first parameter is a data set, which we will require to determine the quartile.
Quartile: The second parameter defines the type of quartile to be returned by the QUARTILE in Excel. The QUARTILE parameter can have any value from 0 to 4. Then, depending on the value of the QUARTILE parameter, the QUARTILE function returns the respective quartile.
Examples
In this section, we will understand the uses of the QUARTILE function in Excel and look at a few examples with the help of actual data.
| Value of Quartile | Return Vaue |
|---|---|
| 0 | Minimum Value |
| 1 | First quartile (also known as 25th Percentile) |
| 2 | Median Value (or 50th Percentile) |
| 3 | Third Quartile or 75th Percentile |
| 4 | Maximum Value |
| 5 to any integer | #NUM! Error |
How to Use the QUARTILE Function in Excel?
This function is very easy to use, and as explained in the previous section, QUARTILE fuses two mandatory parameters.
QUARTILE in Excel - Example #1
Let us consider the data set and apply the QUARTILE function based on quartile values 0,1,2,3 and 4.
QUARTILE in Excel - Example #2
Let us take a larger data set this time. We will try to find Q1, Q2, Q3, minimum, and maximum values.
Things to Remember
- It can be used as a worksheet function.
- It returns a numeric value.
- It was first introduced in Excel 2000 and is now available in all subsequent versions of Excel.
- If the value of the QUARTILE parameter is greater than 4 or less than 0, the function returns a #NUM! Error.
- The QUARTILE formula through #NUM! Error if the given array is empty.
- The QUARTILE function #VALUE! Error if the given value of quart is non-numeric.
