In a similar vein, but shorter:
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_pctile earnings, p(2.5 97.5)
drop if earnings <r(r1) | earnings >r(r2)
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HTH
Martin
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Shephard
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: How to drop some Observation in Stata, if they are out of
range?
bumbuminc wrote:
> Thanks for your answer,
> but the problem is i don't now the min and max values. I want to drop
> the observations if they are under 2.5% and over 97.5% of the maximum
> earnings.
> Boris
>
This would have been useful to state in your original question!
Its not that hard though...
sysuse auto, clear
centile price, centile(2.5)
local min = r(c_1)
centile price, centile(97.5)
local max = r(c_1)
gen restrictedprice = price if(price > `min' & price < `max')
Its general etiquette on Statalist to reply to the list rather than
individuals as it means that the archives then contain complete
solutions to problems which are then searchable by others.
Neil
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