RE: st: AW: Area under a percentile point

["Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu>]

Didn't we have a similar discussion last week - there was a modification of the percentile command - I think Nick Cox contributed to the discussion.

What we have here is a discrete random variable and this has generated the ties.  

Tony

Peter A. Lachenbruch
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<> 

To break the ties you are complaining about, Jeph`s solution sounds good to
me. Also note http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-05/msg00767.html




HTH
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 15:56
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: Re: st: AW: Area under a percentile point


What you want is a bit strange, but here is how I would do it:

  sort myvar
  keep if _n<0.75*_N


hope this helps,
Jeph



zeynep elitaş wrote:
> Thanks for help, but this does not solve my problem.  As a simple
> example, lets assume we have a data set containing five 6's and five
> 7's. so the sample size is 10. Now if I wanted to keep the data values
> below the 75 th percentile, I would roughly have 7 observations
> remaining. However, following your suggestion I end up keeping all the
> observations.
> Thanks
> Zeynep Elitas
> 
> 2009/2/3 Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>:
>> <>
>>
>> Let`s keep those below the 75 percentile of generated normal deviates...
>>
>> *************
>> clear*
>> set obs 1000
>> generate x=rnormal()
>> _pctile x, p(75)
>> keep if x<=r(r1)
>> *************
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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>> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von zeynep
elitas
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 14:28
>> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Betreff: st: Area under a percentile point
>>
>> I have a simple question which I do not have the answer for. Is there
>> a way to tell Stata to keep the data under a certain percentile point
>> and drop the rest?  This is important since in my data a percentile
>> point has often the same value as the ones below and over it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Zeynep Elitaş
>>
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