RANK works fine with sorted or unsorted data.
It is not necessary to sort the values in the list before using the RANK function.
By default, RANK will rank values indescendingorder and assign 1 to thelargestvalue in the list.
However, this behavior can be reversed using the optionalorderargument as explained below.
Note: The RANK function is classified as acompatibility function.
Microsoft recommendsRANK.EQorRANK.AVGbe used instead.
The optionalorderargument is not provided, since RANK will assign 1 to the largest value by default.
Also, note that the optionalorderargument is provided as 1 to force RANK to rank the times inascendingorder.
The next rank assigned will be 5, andno value will receive the rank of 4.
The RANK function assigns both a rank of 3 and the next rank, 4, is skipped.
If tied ranks are a problem, one workaround is to employ atie-breaking strategy.
RANK is the original ranking function in Excel.
RANK and RANK.EQ are essentially the same function.
There should be no cases where RANK and RANK.EQ return different results.
from a set of numeric data.
