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Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: J Arcane on June 02, 2012, 11:19:49 PM
Does anyone know of any tools for quickly and easily generating the numeric ranges of percentile tables?

I usually calculate this stuff by hand, but it'd be nice if there's some tool out there where I can just punch in the number of items in a list and have it quickly spit out the necessary ranges.

Bonus points for advanced features to assist with weighting results.

EDIT: Found this one here: http://media.wholesignal.com/ump/percentile/chartgenerator.html

Anyone know any others?
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: Drohem on June 03, 2012, 11:57:12 AM
Can't answer your question, but thank you for the good link! :)
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: J Arcane on June 03, 2012, 12:16:57 PM
Yeah, I wound up using that program to generate the numbers I needed.  It's a handy link.
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: Planet Algol on June 03, 2012, 03:02:24 PM
If you can wrap you head around it a spreadsheet should be able to generate a % table from a list of items with weighted probabilities.
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: DestroyYouAlot on June 03, 2012, 03:34:09 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;545254Does anyone know of any tools for quickly and easily generating the numeric ranges of percentile tables?

I usually calculate this stuff by hand, but it'd be nice if there's some tool out there where I can just punch in the number of items in a list and have it quickly spit out the necessary ranges.

Bonus points for advanced features to assist with weighting results.

EDIT: Found this one here: http://media.wholesignal.com/ump/percentile/chartgenerator.html

Anyone know any others?

That is friggin' awesome.
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: jeff37923 on June 03, 2012, 05:52:28 PM
Quote from: Planet Algol;545481If you can wrap you head around it a spreadsheet should be able to generate a % table from a list of items with weighted probabilities.

I know the latest version of Excel can do this, I don't know about earlier versions.
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: J Arcane on June 03, 2012, 05:55:38 PM
Quote from: Planet Algol;545481If you can wrap you head around it a spreadsheet should be able to generate a % table from a list of items with weighted probabilities.

I saw a couple mentions of being able to do this in my google searching, but I was unable to find any instructions on exactly how.  My Excel skills are pretty limited.

I would've liked to weight the tables a bit though.
Title: Tools for generating percentile tables?
Post by: J Arcane on August 13, 2013, 10:56:25 AM
Unfortunately, the site that I linked in the OP is down.

Necroing to see if anyone has any other advice on how to easily calculate these.