Re: st: xtile

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

You may want to look at the user-written -egenmore- collection (type: 
"ssc install egenmore").
In particular, check out the -xtile- command with egenmore. Syntax would 
be something like:
egen mpg4 = xtile(mpg), by(foreign) p(25(25)75)

HTH,
Philipp


Erik Bihagen wrote:

> Hello STATA users,
>
> I am trying to transform a variable v1 to values representing the 
> percentiles. This can be done by the xtile command in STATA.
> However, I do not succeed in doing this separately for categories 
> defined by another variable v2.
> It looked like xtile2 was the solution but it does not seem to work in 
> STATA 9.
>
> With SPSS the following command would do the job and automatically 
> create the variable pv1.
>
> rank variables= v1  (a) by v2 /proportion /print=yes
> /ties=mean
> /fraction=blom .
>
> However, I would prefer using STATA instead of switching between STATA 
> and SPSS.
>
> I would very much appreciate help with this.
>
> Erik Bihagen
>
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