Dear Martin and Maarten,
Many thanks for the help.
Best wishes,
Nikolaos
--- On Sat, 11/28/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: RE: RE: converting continuous var to ordinal with equal obs numbers per group
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 2:04 PM
>
> <>
>
> If the equal frequency is really important to you:
>
>
>
> *******
> clear*
> set obs 1500
>
> local a 15
> local b 86
> gen age=`a'+int((`b'-`a'+1)*runiform())
>
> sort age
> gen byte group=sum(mod(_n,100)==1)
>
> table group, contents(freq min age max age )
> graph dot (mean) age (min) age (max) age, over(group)
> *******
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
> Sent: Samstag, 28. November 2009 12:45
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: converting continuous var to ordinal with
> equal obs numbers
> per group
>
>
> <>
>
> " ...with equal number of observations per group"
>
>
> With integer cutpoints, the equal frequency part of your
> request is hard to
> comply with:
>
>
> *******
> clear*
> set obs 1500
>
> local a 15
> local b 86
> gen age=`a'+int((`b'-`a'+1)*runiform())
>
> egen catage = cut(age), /*
> */ group(15) label
>
> table catage, /*
> */ c(freq min age max age)
> *******
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Nikolaos Pandis
> Sent: Samstag, 28. November 2009 11:48
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: converting continuous var to ordinal with
> equal obs numbers per
> group
>
> Hi to all,
>
> I a continuous variable (age) with a range from 15-86
> and around 1500
> observations.
> How could I convert it into an ordinal variable with equal
> number of
> observations per group, given that I would like to have
> around 15 groups.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nikolaos
>
>
>
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