I agree Nick's reply. Below is one way to calculate p25 and p75
sysuse auto
quietly su price , d
scalar per25=r(p25)
scalar per75=r(p75)
scalar list
HTH
2007/7/3, Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
It doesn't matter how new you are to Stata, or
even the world.
You should (please) learn
(1) to use Stata's own on-line facilities
(2) to ask more specific questions.
. search percentile
gives lots of ways of doing it. -summarize- is one.
Nick
[email protected]
AttaUllah Shah
> Please help me in calculating the 25th and 75th percentiles
> in stata.
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