Re: st: program to calculate specific percentiles

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:43 AM 7/19/2006, Dirk Nachbar wrote:
> All
>
> here is a program to calculate specific percentiles. unfortunately 
> it reports a syntax error and I don't know why.
>
> capture program drop perc
>
> program define perc
>
>     version 8.2
>
>     syntax varlist [if] [in], [by(name)] groups(int 10) gen(name)
The ] is in the wrong place.  It should be at the end of the line.

There may be other errors.  If you type

set trace on

you'll be able to track them down better.  e.g. This line

if `by' != "" {

should probably be

if "`by'" != "" {

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