--- Brooks Taggert J <[email protected]> wrote:
> My university uses the fractional median when calculating scores from
> student evaluation of instructors. I'm helping us move electronically
> and in the process was using Stata to do some of the statistics.
> Strangely I can't find an easy method (ie a pre-built ado) to
> calculate the fractional median, nor can I find a reference anywhere.
> Am I missing something?
I am not quite sure what you mean with fractional median, but it sounds
similar to what Nick Cox has done with -hdquantile-, see:
-ssc describe hdquantile- and Nick's talk at the 2007 Nordic and Baltic
Stata Users' Group Meetings:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/nsug07/1.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room N515
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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