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Re: st: Drop if beyond certain percentile
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Susan Olivia <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Drop if beyond certain percentile
Date
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:41:47 +1100
Hi Sandy,
This can be easily done using either the 'pctile' or 'xtile' syntax.
You need to create your variable first using those syntax, then just
keep relevant observations for your analysis.
Hope this helps,
Susan
On 30 March 2012 16:12, Sandy Y. Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi guys:
>
> Would anyone happen to know how to drop datapoints that are larger
> than or smaller than certain percentiles? For example, I would like to
> drop any observations that's higher than 95% percentile or lower than
> 5% percentile in my dataset.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> --
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Sandy Y. Zhu
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