This issue is probably regarded as too much
of a complication for the introductory books
and too mundane for the advanced books.
The Stata manual does make clear Stata's
own procedure.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of peter harper
> Sent: 11 May 2004 23:18
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: quartiles
>
>
> Nick
> That may explain why I, another author and yet another
> author have got different quartile figures.
>
>
> --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > There
> are lots of slightly different
> > definitions of quartiles (more generally
> > of quantiles) and packages
> > and sometimes commands within packages
> > differ in what they use. This could
> > easily account for some apparent
> > discrepancies.
> >
> > See for example
> >
> > Rob J. Hyndman; Yanan Fan. 1996.
> > Sample quantiles in statistical packages
> > The American Statistician, 50(4) 361-365.
> >
> > You may able to access this via http://www.jstor.org
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > peter harper
> >
> > > I was merely replying to Clive's suggestion.
> > > I have tried various things, I was not getting the
> > > same answer another author got. But I and a
> > another
> > > statalist user have agreed that I ask the author,
> > as
> > > he may have used other figures.
> >
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