Nick Cox
> SJ Friederich, Economics
> >
> > Say I have a variable taking on a large number of values
> > and I am only
> > interested in finding out how much each of the top five or
> > ten values
> > represent in terms of frequencies. Is there an obvious way
> > to tabulate only
> > the largest (or smallest) values of a variable? -tabsort-
> > will do it but
> > generate tons of unwanted output (beyond the top values), I
> > am more after
> > something like Nick's -extremes- but for frequencies.
>
> I interpret this as saying you want to see the # most
> frequent values.
>
> -modes- (STB-50) isn't quite what you seem to want,
> but it may help. I'll look at adding this as
> an option.
Belay that. I understand now, I think.
Nick
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