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Hello,
I need help with DAX that calculate the 75th percentile of sales the top 95% salespeople by sales. I have attached a Excel snippet of expected results. Sales highlighted in yellow need to be excluded from the table of users that will be used to calculate the 75th percentile. I can calculated the percentile in DAX but stuck on filtering out the bottom 5% salespeople
--sales percentile
VAR Percentile75 = 0.75
--bottom 5% salespeople to be excluded
VAR SalespeopleExcluded = 0.05
--selected state
VAR StateinContext =
SUMMARIZE ( 'Sales', 'Sales'[State] )
--total sales for entire state
VAR TotalSales =
CALCULATE (
[Sales],
StateinContext,
ALL('Sales'[Salesperson]),
)
VAR SalesBySalesperson =
FILTER (
CALCULATETABLE (
ADDCOLUMNS (
CALCULATETABLE (
SUMMARIZE (
'Sales',
'Sales'[Salesperson]
)
),
"@SalespersonProportionofSales%", CALCULATE ( DIVIDE ( [Sales], TotalSales ) ),
"@Sales", [Sales]
),
ALL ( 'Sales'[Salesperson] )
,StateinContext
),
[@SalespersonProportionofSales%] > SalespeopleExcluded
&& [@Sales] <> BLANK ()
)
VAR Result =
CALCULATE (
PERCENTILEX.INC (
SalesBySalesperson,
[@Sales],
Percentile75
)
)
RETURN
Result
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi,
Please check the below picture and the attached pbix file.
I tried to create a sample pbix file like below, and I hope the below can provide some ideas on how to create a solution for your datamodel.
All measures are in the attached pbix file.
In the below, by using the measure [Percentage cumulate except bottom 5%:], the desired result can be shown.
It's nothing but just 75%*95%=71.25% percentile of the whole set.
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Hi,
Please check the below picture and the attached pbix file.
I tried to create a sample pbix file like below, and I hope the below can provide some ideas on how to create a solution for your datamodel.
All measures are in the attached pbix file.
In the below, by using the measure [Percentage cumulate except bottom 5%:], the desired result can be shown.
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