help pctile might be useful as well as reading the FAQ title "How can
I calculate percentile ranks?
How can I calculate plotting positions?" written by Nick Cox. The
URL is http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/pcrank.html
Best,
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 9:09 PM, Yang Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear StataList,
>
> I understand that if one wants to find values at some particular
> percentiles of a variable she can use
>
> -centile var1, centile(pctile1 pctile2 pctile3)-
>
> But what if I have some arbituary values and want STATA to return
> their percentile? I know I can write a do file to make it automatic
> but would be surprised if such a syntax did not already exist (though
> I didn't find it. I use stata 9.) I'm sorry if someone asked this
> before; I'm new to the list but I did check before I wrote this email.
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Yang
>
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