Re: st: RE: How to Calculate 25th and 75th Percentile in Stata

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centile x, centile(25  50)

> From: "Abdel Rahmen El Lahga" <rahmen.lahga@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: How to Calculate 25th and 75th Percentile in Stata
> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:40:55 +0200
>
> 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 <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>:
> > 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
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > AttaUllah Shah
> >
> > > Please help me in calculating the 25th and 75th percentiles
> > > in stata.
> >
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