st: Re: median

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

You want to know how many values are above the median, but you don't want to 
have to calculate the median?  Why?  What's wrong with this?

sum myvar, detail
gen byte above=myvar>r(p50)
tab mycohort above

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monika Huembelin" <hummel29@yahoo.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:07 AM
Subject: st: median



> I'd like to calculate how many observations in each cohort are above the 
> total median value of a variable. Does anyone know if there is an easy way 
> to do that without having to calculate the median first and include the 
> value in each following calculation? I couldn't find anything in the help 
> files. Thank you
>
> Monika
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