RE: st: working with percentile cutpoints

["Visintainer, Paul" <PAUL_VISINTAINER@NYMC.EDU>]

Thanks, Svend.  That's what I needed.  (Thanks also Brent for the
work-around)

-p



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The -egenmore- -xtile()- function does it. You may need first to
    ssc install egenmore
 
. sysuse auto , clear
. egen pricegrp = xtile(price) , percentiles(13 35 73)
. tab1 pricegrp
 
-> tabulation of pricegrp  
 
   pricegrp |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |         10       13.51       13.51
          2 |         16       21.62       35.14
          3 |         29       39.19       74.32
          4 |         19       25.68      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |         74      100.00

Hope this helps
Svend
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