Re: st: Deciles and Stata

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

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Nuno Soares

I'm looking for help with a problem with stata and deciles.
I want to insert a new variable (NewVar) which is based on another variable
(X) deciles/quartiles.
Here goes an example of my problem:
Ex. for the quartiles case (just for the sake of exposition, since I need
deciles...), I would like to be able to generate the NewVar variable 
based on the quantiles of X's observations:

  	X		NewVar
  	1		1
  	6		2
  	2		1
  	4		2
  	3		1
  	5		2
  	12		4
  	9		3
  	8		3
  	10		4
  	11		4
  	7		3

Is there a function or a way of doing this automatically? I've searched 
the help files but found no solution to this problem...

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