--- Mentzakis, Emmanouil wrote:
> I have a continous variable (i.e. income) and I would like to transform
> it into a categorical one (e.g 5 categories/levels or more).
>
> I would like to ask if there is any way that I can ask stata to create
> this variable deciding the appropriate cut-off points automatically so
> that the categories follow aproximately a normal distrubution or they
> are of equal size.
For the latter have a look at -help egen- and look at the cut function.
For the former: how would you expect a variable to become more like
a normal distribution by making it coarser?
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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