RE: st: Deciles and Stata

["louis boakye-yiadom" <louisby@hotmail.com>]

xtile NewVar = X, nq(10)

Louis


> I'm looking for help with a problem with stata and deciles.
> I want to insert a new variable (NewVar) which is based on another variable
> (X) deciles/quartiles.
> Here goes an example of my problem:
> Ex. for the quartiles case (just for the sake of exposition, since I need
> deciles...), I would like to be able to generate the NewVar variable based
> on the quantiles of X's observations:
>
>   	X		NewVar
>   	1		1
>   	6		2
>   	2		1
>   	4		2
>   	3		1
>   	5		2
>   	12		4
>   	9		3
>   	8		3
>   	10		4
>   	11		4
>   	7		3
>
> Is there a function or a way of doing this automatically? I've searched the
> help files but found no solution to this problem...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nuno

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