Re: st: RE: how can I create deciles by group?

["Erasmo Giambona" <e.giambona@gmail.com>]

Thanks Nick.
Erasmo

On 7/16/07, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> In addition to other answers, check out Ulrich Kohler's
> -egen- function within -egenmore- on SSC.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Erasmo Giambona
> >
> > I need to create deciles for my dataset by year. I understand STATA
> > allows one to get deciles for the full data set (in my case I used:
> > xtile size_decile=size1, nq(10)), but I  really need to get my deciles
> > by year. I realize that the "by" group does not work with "xtile". Is
> > there any way to get the size deciles by year?
>
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