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Q: Statistics - Percentile Z Score, P- Table ( No Answer,   2 Comments )
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Subject: Statistics - Percentile Z Score, P- Table
Category: Reference, Education and News > Homework Help
Asked by: danbauer-ga
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Posted: 11 Aug 2004 13:40 PDT
Expires: 24 Aug 2004 08:45 PDT
Question ID: 386640
Here is the question.  How to find the 90th percentile value for a
table of normally distributed data?

Mean	216.8789144
Median	196
Standard Deviation	120.8120967
Sample Variance	14595.56271
Minimum	0
Maximum	1103
Sum	103885
Count	479
Largest(1)	1103
Smallest(1)	0


I have a formula that will i believe will work but I am missing the
Z-value.  Here is the formula:

X = 90th percentile value

X = mean + (Zscore)(StandardDeviation)

My research tells me that I need to reference known tables (p table?
or t table?) to find out the z score for a given percentile based on a
normal distribution.  I am not able to find these tables to complete
the equation.

Thanks,
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Subject: Re: Statistics - Percentile Z Score, P- Table
From: racecar-ga on 11 Aug 2004 15:21 PDT
 
Those numbers are not consistent with normally distributed data.  The
normal curve is symmetrical, but your max value differs from the
median by almost 5 times as much as your min value does.  If you
provide some information on what kind of data it is, it may be easier
to help.
Subject: Re: Statistics - Percentile Z Score, P- Table
From: purkinje-ga on 11 Aug 2004 16:16 PDT
 
Just plug in your values here, and you won't even need a table-- it
will give you an exact value.
http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/PValue1.cfm

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