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st: RE: using saved values


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: using saved values
Date   Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:42:38 +0100

Line for the server...



You can also do this with even less fuss

*****
sysuse auto, clear
_pctile pr, p(25 75)
ret li
*verify result against -summarize-
su pr,d
*****

HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lektzian, David
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: using saved values

Dear Statalist,
I know this is a pretty simple question, but I was wondering if somebody
could tell my how to get the 75th percentile of a variable and then use it
for a future calculation.  So, specifically, using a cross-sectional time
series data set organized by country and year, I want to do the following:
By year, generate a variable with the 75th percentile value for
SqMilesOfLand
Then generate another variable =1 if the current value for a country of
SqMilesOfLand > 75th percentile.
Then I want to do the same thing for less than the 25th percentile, and
another dummy for being between the 25th and 75th percentiles.

A more general question is that I can't figure out how to call out saved
values from something like summarize and use them in future calculations.

Any help/instruction would be greatly appreciated.

Dave



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