Re: st: Decile regression using sqreg

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 23 Apr 2008, at 20:36, Leonor Saravia wrote:

> I'm having a problem using the "sreg" command in Stata. I'd like to
> run a regression foreach DECIL of the income distribution of a
> country, so I've told Stata to do this:
>
> sqreg income expenditure, quantiles(.1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 1)
You only need nine cutpoints to create ten deciles. The 1 at the end  
is unnecessary.


> But Stata is performing the regression for the nine first decils and
> for the quantile 1 (I think, because in the output I have the
> estimation results for the: q10 q20 ....q90 q1).
The words we use are confusing; 'decile' is used for both the  
interval containing 10% of the data and for the upper cutpoint for  
this interval.

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