I think -relrank- is what you are looking for. See
. ssc describe relrank
There is also a Mata function called -relrank()- in the
-moremata- package. See
. ssc describe moremata
ben
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Eric G. Wruck
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Inverse Percentile
>
>
> I ran a <summ days, de> on the variable days & of course obtained the
> 25th & 50th percentiles (among others). My 25th percentile was close
> to zero days & my median 4 days. Is there a way to obtain the
> percentiles corresponding to say 1, 2, & 3 days? I know I can
> compute percentiles using the pctile command so I could pick a fine
> setting & then search for the closest to the values I am interested
> in but that seems rather kludgy -- is there another way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
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