Akihito:
I am one observation, and I have no problem considering myself the centre of (my) universe.
Similarly, Stata has no problem considering a single observation the middle observation of that
dataset.
HTH,
Maarten
--- Akihito Tokuhara <[email protected]> wrote:
> By the way, I notice that once in a while a subset of data has only one
> observation, and yet
> Stata also calculates the median. Just being curious, but how does Stata
> calculate this ?
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