SQUANTILE Function

Returns the quantile from a distribution when you specify the right probability (SDF).

Category:	Quantile
See:	SDF Function

Syntax

dist

is a character constant, variable, or expression that identifies the distribution. Valid distributions are as follows:

Note: Except for T, F, and NORMALMIX, you can minimally identify any distribution by its first four characters.

probability: is a numeric constant, variable, or expression that specifies the value of a random variable.

parm-1,…,parm-k: are optional shape, location, or scale parameters that are appropriate for the specific distribution.

The SQUANTILE function computes the probability from various continuous and discrete distributions. For more information, see Details.

This is an example of the SQUANTILE function.

data;
   dist = 'logistic';
   sdf = squantile(dist,1.e-20);
   put sdf=;
   p = sdf(dist,sdf);
   put p= /* p will be 1.e-20 */;
run;

SAS writes the following output to the log:

sdf=46.05170186
p=1E-20