--- Sharon Kane <[email protected]> wrote to me privately:
> Thanks Maarten, that does help some, but here is the rest of the
> specifics. I have two choices for my cutpoints - 1. the original
> variable and 2. the variable containing quintiles 1-5. When I select
> either of those as my cutpoints for the new variable, the results are
> strange. Any further suggestions?
It is usually better to respond to the statalist for reasons discussed
in section 5 of the statalist FAQ.
A quick and dirty method is shown in the example below:
*------------- begin example -------------
// prepare the data
tempfile benchmark newdata
sysuse auto, clear
keep if foreign == 0
save `benchmark'
sysuse auto, clear
keep if foreign == 0
save `newdata'
// collect the cutvalues
use `benchmark', clear
_pctile mpg , nquantile(5)
return list
// apply these cutvalues to new data
use `newdata', clear
gen bench = .
forvalues i = 1/4 {
replace bench = `r(r`i')' in `i'
}
list bench in 1/10
xtile newvar = mpg, cutpoints(bench)
tab newvar
tab mpg newvar
*------------- end example ----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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