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st: RE: working with percentile cutpoints


From   "Brent Fulton" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: working with percentile cutpoints
Date   Tue, 22 May 2007 08:26:37 -0700

Paul,

I am not sure how to do it in one step, but you could do the following:

xtile temp =  var1, nq(100)   /* creates new variable of integers with range
of 1 to 100 indicating percentiles */
gen new_var1=.
replace new_var1=1 if inrange(temp,1,12)
replace new_var1=2 if inrange(temp,13,34)
replace new_var1=3 if inrange(temp,35,72)
replace new_var1=4 if inrange(temp,73,100)

-Brent


______________________________________________________
Brent D. Fulton, PhD
Health Services Researcher
Petris Center, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Phone: 510-643-4102 
Fax: 510-643-4281
Email: [email protected]
www.petris.org
 



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Visintainer, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: working with percentile cutpoints

Is there a way to create a new variable that uses cutpoints based on unique
percentiles of distribution?  For example, suppose I want a new variable
with 4 groups at (or as close as the distribution will allow) the following
percentile cutpoints:  13th percentile, 35th percentile, and the 73rd
percentile?  I've looked at -xtile-, -pctile-, and -egen- and they don't
seem to allow for this option.

What am I missing?



Thanks for any help

Paul Visintainer

 



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