> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:04:15PM +0100, SJ Friederich, Economics wrote:
> > Say I have a variable taking on a large number of values and I am only
> > interested in finding out how much each of the top five or ten values
> > represent in terms of frequencies.
>
On Mon, 12 May 2003, Michael Hills wrote:
> . tab X if X > x
>
> might work after a few stabs at different values of x.
Nearly there, but in one step you can use ranks. As the rank function
changes the sort order of the data, it may be advisable to save the
current order:
gen corder = _n
egen rankx = rank(x)
tab x if rankx < 5
However, I often advise clients that a very powerful analysis tool is to
sort and inspect the data editor, since you can see what other variables
are odd values on the same case.
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