Manuel Kast
> how can I generate in Stata 8.0 a new variable which
> contains the values
> assigned by the observed cumulative distribution of one
> variable? In other
> words, I would like to get those values stored in a new
> variable, that are
> used by the command "cdf varname" to plot the sample cumulative
> distribution function of varname.
> I don't think the command "cumul varname" will not work for
> my case, since
> my variable contains several observations with the same
> values, but "cumul
> varname" assigns different values to to these, depending
> how they were
> initially ordered.
sort varname
gen cumul = sum(varname < .)
by varname: replace cumul = cumul[_N]
replace cumul = cumul / cumul[_N]
Nick
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