on 07/05/2004 21:56, peter harper at [email protected] wrote:
> Can tell me the commands to obtain a bottom and top
> quartile. 
> Thanks in advance
You could try the index, located at the back of the manual.
Most of us are too lazy to do that, and simply type
. findit quartile
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10 May 2004 09:38:27
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[R] centile . . . . . . . . . . . . Report centile and confidence interval
        (help centile)
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This gives an answer right away, and is faster than writing to the Stata
list.
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