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st: percentiles and locating a scalar in there.


From   "NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: percentiles and locating a scalar in there.
Date   Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:46:08 -0700

Hi, I have a question regarding percentiles that I've been having some trouble with...suppose that you have a variable x, and you have a scalar s, and you'd like to know at about what percentile of the x variable the s scalar falls. For instance, suppose x=1,2,3,...,1000. Then if you have s=20, it should be assigned the percentilie value of the 2nd percentile. Is there a way to do this easily in stata? (I wanted to assign the scalar a n approximate percentile EVEN IF IT'S NOT A VALUE in the variable itself so it can't be located in there) Everything I could think of would take quite a while.
Thank you for your help,
Florence
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