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Re: st: percentiles and locating a scalar in there.


From   Nick Winter <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: percentiles and locating a scalar in there.
Date   Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:32:16 -0400

Assuming your variable is mpg, and your scalar is 20. Then how about something like:

count if mpg>20
local a = r(N)
count if mpg<20
local b = r(N)
count if mpg==20
local e = r(N)

di (`b'+`e'/2) / (`a'+`b'+`e')

That is, count how many observations are below s, how many above, and how many are equal. Then the percentile is just the number below, and half of the ties, over the total N.

--Nick Winter


At 06:46 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:

Hi, I have a question regarding percentiles that I've been having some trouble with...suppose that you have a variable x, and you have a scalar s, and you'd like to know at about what percentile of the x variable the s scalar falls. For instance, suppose x=1,2,3,...,1000. Then if you have s=20, it should be assigned the percentilie value of the 2nd percentile. Is there a way to do this easily in stata? (I wanted to assign the scalar a n approximate percentile EVEN IF IT'S NOT A VALUE in the variable itself so it can't be located in there) Everything I could think of would take quite a while.
Thank you for your help,
Florence
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