Thanks to Kit Baum, -extremes- is now available
from SSC for users of Stata 8.
-extremes- lists extreme values of a variable
and -- among other details -- exploits some nice
features of the revised -list- command.
-extremes- lists extreme values of a numeric variable.
If any other variables are also specified, these are
also listed for the same observations. By default,
the extremes are the 5 lowest and the 5 highest values.
Optionally values may be identified as extremes
according to their distance from the nearer quartile.
In writing -extremes- I borrowed some ideas from
Michael N. Mitchell's -hilo-, for which type
. findit hilo
To install -extremes- given Stata 8,
. ssc inst extremes
To see more on what it does
. ssc type extremes.ado
. ssc type extremes.hlp
Nick
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