Hi Billy,
There are some ties for some variables, will that be a big problem?
Btw, do you mean egen decile=group(10)?
Thanks,
Xixi Lin
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:44 AM, William Buchanan
<william@williambuchanan.net> wrote:
> Why not use -egen-? Also, are there ties in the values for the variable you are trying to recode?
>
> HTH,
> Billy
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 26, 2013, at 7:30, Xixi Lin <winnielxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to make independent variables into decile groups, and I
>> used xtile decile=x1 if Period==`z', nq(10); however, it turns out
>> that xtile does not make equal number of the 10 groups, is there any
>> way to force stata to divide them into equal number of obs or almost
>> equal number of obs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Xixi Lin
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