st: New package -rcentile- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks once again to Kit Baum, a new package -rcentile- is now available 
for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -rcentile- package is described as below on my website, and computes 
robust confidence intervals for percentiles, allowing for weights and/or 
clustering if necessary. It requires the existing SSC packages 
-somersd-, -scsomersd- and -rcentile- in order to work. I would like to 
thank Steven Samuels for suggesting (a few years ago) that a package 
like -rcentile- might be a good idea. The -rcentile- package might be 
even better if it also supported sampling strata and finite-population 
corrections, but this would require some extensive re-writing of the 
-somersd- package, which I do not currently have the time to do.

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

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TITLE
      rcentile: Robust confidence intervals for percentiles

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      rcentile calculates robust confidence intervals for
      percentiles, allowing for clustered sampling and/or weighting
      if necessary.  rcentile requires the SSC packages somersd,
      scsomersd and expgen in order to work.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-date: 26may2013
      Stata-version: 10.0


INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      rcentile.ado
      rcentile.sthlp
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