In Excel 2010, the QUARTILE function has been renamed the QUARTILE.INC function.
The Excel QUARTILE function returns a requested quartile of a supplied range of values.
The format of the function is :
Where the function arguments are:
|array||-||The range of data values for which you want to calculate the specified quartile|
An integer between 0 and 4, representing the required quartile.
(if the supplied value of quart is not an integer, it is truncated)
Note that the Excel Quartile function is closely related to the Excel Percentile function in that:
The spreadsheets below show examples of the Excel Quartile function used to calculate the quartiles of the set of values 0 - 6 (stored in cells A1 - A7 of the sample spreadsheet).
The formulas for the functions are shown in the spreadsheet on the left, and the results are shown in the spreadsheet on the right.
Note that in the above examples:
For further examples of the Excel Quartile function, see the Microsoft Office website
If you get an error from the Excel Quartile function this is likely to be one of the following:
Occurs if either:
|#VALUE!||-||Occurs if the supplied value of quart cannot be interpreted as a numeric value|