The Excel QUARTILE.INC Function

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Related Functions:  PERCENTILE.INC QUARTILE.EXC

Basic Description

The Excel QUARTILE.INC function returns a requested quartile of a supplied range of values, based on a percentile range of 0 to 1 inclusive.

The function is new in Excel 2010 and so is not available in earlier versions of Excel. However, Quartile.Inc is simply a renamed version of the old Quartile function, that is available in earlier versions of Excel.

The format of the function is :

Where the function arguments are:

If the requested quartile falls between two of the values in the supplied array, Excel interpolates between these values to calculate the quartile value.

Note that the Quartile.Inc function is closely related to the Excel Percentile.Inc function in that:

• The 1st quartile is the same as the 25th percentile
• The 2nd quartile is the same as the 50th percentile
• The 3rd quartile is the same as the 75th percentile
• The 4th quartile is the same as the 100th percentile (and is equal to the maximum value in the range)

Quartile.Inc Function Examples

The spreadsheets below show examples of the Excel Quartile.Inc 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.

Formulas:

Results:

Note that in the above examples:

• The 1st quartile (calculated in cell B2) falls halfway between the values of 1 and 2. Therefore, Excel has interpolated the data, to produce the result 1.5
• Similarly, the 3rd quartile (calculated in cell B4) falls halfway between the values of 4 and 5. Therefore Excel has interpolated the data, to produce the result, 4.5

For further examples of the Excel Quartile.Inc function, see the Microsoft Office website

Trouble Shooting

If you get an error from the Excel Quartile.Inc function this is likely to be one of the following: