st: cumulative distribution function (assigned values)

[Manuel Kast <Manuel.Kast@hec.unil.ch>]

Dear Statalisters,

how can I generate in Stata 8.0 a new variable which contains the values 
assigned by the observed cumulative distribution of one variable? In other 
words, I would like to get those values stored in a new variable, that are 
used by the command "cdf varname" to plot the sample cumulative 
distribution function of varname.
I don't think the command "cumul varname" will not work for my case, since 
my variable contains several observations with the same values, but "cumul 
varname" assigns different values to to these, depending how they were 
initially ordered.

Thanks in advance,

Manuel

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Manuel Kast
Doctoral Fellow
International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering (FAME)
University of Lausanne, HEC-BFSH1, Office #695
1015 Lausanne-Dorigny
Switzerland
phone: ++41-21-692 3478
e-mail: manuel.kast@hec.unil.ch
www.fame.ch

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