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Re: st: by year: xtile


From   Kaspar Dardas <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: by year: xtile
Date   Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:31 +0100

Thank you Ulrich! This works perfect.

2009/11/10 Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>:
> There is a egen function in -egenmore- for this:
>
> . ssc install egenmore
> . egen mcadecile = xtile(mcap), by(years) p(10(10)90)
>
>
> Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Kaspar Dardas:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have two variables years (2005 2006 2007...) and mcap (which is the
>> capitalization of firms, numeric values). I would like to create
>> deciles of mcap by years (not across the entire sample but for each
>> year) . Is there a quick way to do this besides a loop for the below?
>>
>> xtile mcapdecile = mcap, nq(10)
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Kaspar
>>
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