Re: st: Fractional Median

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

-pctile- with the -altdef- option gives an interpolated percentile  
different from that in -sum-.  See if that's what you need.

-Steve

--- Brooks Taggert J <brooks.tagg@uwlax.edu> 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?
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