See .help xtile, or look up xtile in the reference manual - I think that
will give you what you want.
If I understand your question, you would want to type:
xtile newvar=oldvar, nq(4)
Sarah
--On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:40 PM -0500 Lindsey Jeanne Leininger
<[email protected]> wrote:
I apologize for posting a basic question.
I am trying to generate a categorical variable from a continuous
variable. I would like the category endpoints to be the 25% percentile,
the 50% percentile, the 75% percentile, and the 100% percentile.
I can do this interactively by typing tabstat var, stats(p25, p50, p75,
max) and then using the gen command to manually enter what the tabstat
command output. However, I would like to automate the process. Does
anyone know the code for this?
Any help would be much appreciated!!
-Lindsey Leininger
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Lindsey Jeanne Leininger
Ph.D. student
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
[email protected]
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