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Mario Macis <mmacis@gmail.com>

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Re: st: Generating percentiles
Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:39:53 -0500

Hi,
say you want the 25th percentile:
sort year
by year: egen p25 = pctile(price), p(25)
Hope this helps!
Mario
On 7/16/05, Yvonne Capstick <yvonnecapstick@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I am able to generate easily the median of a variable for a given year, e.g.
sort year
by year: egen medianprice = median(price)
Does anyone know
variable? I know
percentiles, and
it can't be used

how I can generate the 30th and 70th percentile of a

I can use the centile function to display the 30th and 70th
the centile function can definitely be used with "by", but
with "egen" it seems.

Thanks
Yvonne
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