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Re: st: egen nth highest or lowest value
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"Bartus Tamás" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: egen nth highest or lowest value
Date
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:42:22 +0200
The code for, say, the lowest 5th value of variable x could be
sort x
gen tempvar = x in 5
egen newvar = mean(tempvar)
The code for the highest 5th value is
gsort - x
gen tempvar = x in 5
egen newvar = mean(tempvar)
Hope this helps,
Tamas
On 13/04/11, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
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> is that possible to generate a new variable containing the nth lowest or nth highest value of another variable?
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> Thanks
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