st: Sums and means for each decile

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:09:39 +0000
From: Charles Vellutini <charles.vellutini@ecopa.com>
Subject: st: Sums and means for each decile

Dear all,

I have looked at -decile- and -pctile- but neither provides the sums and
means of each decile/percentile (only the cutoffs), if I am not
mistaken.

One could of course recover the cutoffs from -decile- and program this
by hand. There is also the excellent -glcurve- available from SSC but
this produces graphs; it creates variables that, yes, could also be used
to compute the sums I suppose.

But I thought that someone surely programmed this already?

Many thanks in advance,
Charles
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Your message does not spell out exactly what you want or, indeed, why
you want to do it. 

But I suggest that you look at -sumdist- on SSC. It provides estimates
of quantile group shares, and cumulative shares, and saves group by
group results in r() for those and a number of other statistics. From
the saved results, you can generate group means and sums

Stephen
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