Ronnie Babigumira
>
> Rod, this works for me
> . sum p, d
>
> Price
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Percentiles Smallest
> 1% 3291 3291
> 5% 3748 3299
> 10% 3895 3667 Obs 74
> 25% 4195 3748 Sum of Wgt. 74
>
> 50% 5006.5 Mean 6165.257
> Largest Std. Dev. 2949.496
> 75% 6342 13466
> 90% 11385 13594 Variance 8699526
> 95% 13466 14500 Skewness 1.653434
> 99% 15906 15906 Kurtosis 4.819188
>
> . list make price if price == `r(p75)'
>
> make price
> 23. Dodge St. Regis 6,342
>
> **
> You may or may not use ur own macro. If u use ur own macro, the
> after sum p, d, you could
>
> local p75 = r(p75) (I notice u missed this step)
> and then list
>
> list make price if price == `p75'
>
As noted previously, this works because, for this sample
size, the quantile in question is a particular value
and thus at least one value is equal to it. But
as the documentation for -summarize- explains, some
quantiles are computed by splitting the difference
between adjacent order statistics.
Try
. sysuse auto
. drop in 1/2
. su displ, d
The upper quartile is calculated as (231 + 250) / 2
and is not equal to any observed value. This
necessitates an approach based on finding whatever
minimises |value - quantile| = abs(value - quantile)
and several observations may tie on this criterion
(even if there are no ties in the data).
Nick
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