PERCENTILERANK (MDX)

For a given numeric value, this function evaluates a given expression (or the current measure), across all elements of a set, and returns the percentile rank of that expression — the percentage of values that are the same or lower.

Returned Type

This function returns a number.

Syntax and Details

PERCENTILERANK(set_expression, numeric_expression, comparison_value)

Where:

set_expression is an expression that evaluates to a set, typically a set of members or tuples.
numeric_expression is a numeric-valued expression that the function evaluates for each set element.
Typically, this expression has the form [MEASURES].[measure_name]
comparison_value is a numeric literal that represents the value against which the system compares the numeric expression for all set members.

The function evaluates numeric_expression for each element of the set, compares that value to comparison_value, and returns the percentile rank of the comparison value.

Example

For reference, the following query shows the Patient Count measure for the members of the aged.year level. The ORDER function sorts these members into order by their value of Patient Count so that we can easily compare the later results to this query:

SELECT MEASURES.[%COUNT] ON 0, ORDER(birthd.year.MEMBERS,MEASURES.[%COUNT],BASC) ON 1 FROM patients
 
                             Patient Count
 1 1916                                   1
 2 1921                                   1
 3 1922                                   1
 4 1925                                   1
 5 1941                                   1
 6 1914                                   2
 7 1918                                   2
 8 1920                                   3
 9 1927                                   3
10 1931                                   3
11 1934                                   3
12 1926                                   4
13 1932                                   4
14 1949                                   4
15 1955                                   4
16 1956                                   4
17 1928                                   5
18 1930                                   5
19 1937                                   5
20 1938                                   5
21 1966                                   5
22 1929                                   6
23 1940                                   6
24 1952                                   6
25 1939                                   7
...
93 2003                                  23
94 1977                                  25

Next, the following query shows the percentile rank of a member that has 5 patients:

SELECT PERCENTILERANK(birthd.year.MEMBERS,MEASURES.[%Count],5) ON 1 FROM patients
 
 
Rank of 5                             19.68

That is, if you consider birth years that have 5 patients or fewer, these birth years constitute 19.68% of the set of years.

PERCENTILERANK (MDX)

Returned Type

Syntax and Details

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