About Deciles in Stata,
Is your proplem is to create decile variable "New_year" according to X
varilable?
Try with command
xtile newYear = X, nq(10)
Binod Manandhar
CBS, Nepal
On 8/21/05, Nuno Soares <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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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