Re: st: How to drop some Observation in Stata, if they are out of range?

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- bumbuminc wrote to me privately:
> Thanks for your answer, but the problem is i don't now the min and
> max values. I want to drop the observations if they are under 2.5%
> and over 97.5% of the maximun earning.

Please don't respond off list, the reason for that is discussed in the
statalist FAQ point 5 (a link to the statalist FAQ can be found at the
bottom of this and every other message on the statalist).

I think such procedures are a bad idea. If you are worried about
outliers look at the appropriate diagnostic graphs (see: -help regress
postestimation-) and identify individual influential observations and
try to ascertain why they are outliers, then use that information to
decide what to do with that observation. 

-- Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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