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Re: st: is there a syntax that inverts what -centile- does?


From   "Yang Lu" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: is there a syntax that inverts what -centile- does?
Date   Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:12:27 -0800

Thank you Ben; I've downloaded -relrank-.

On Jan 10, 2008 2:23 AM, Ben Jann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe also the -relrank- command is of help (or the -mm_relrank()-
> Mata function from the -moremata- package). See
>
>  . ssc describe relrank
>
>  . ssc describe moremata
>
> ben
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 5:03 AM, Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > help pctile might be useful as well as reading the FAQ title "How can
> > I calculate percentile ranks?
> > How can I calculate plotting positions?"  written by Nick Cox.  The
> > URL is http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/pcrank.html
> >
> > Best,
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2008 9:09 PM, Yang Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dear StataList,
> > >
> > > I understand that if one wants to find values at some particular
> > > percentiles of a variable she can use
> > >
> > > -centile var1, centile(pctile1 pctile2 pctile3)-
> > >
> > > But what if I have some arbituary values and want STATA to return
> > > their percentile? I know I can write a do file to make it automatic
> > > but would be surprised if such a syntax did not already exist (though
> > > I didn't find it. I use stata 9.) I'm sorry if someone asked this
> > > before; I'm new to the list but I did check before I wrote this email.
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > Yang
> > >
> > >
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> > > Yang Lu
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