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To break the ties you are complaining about, Jeph`s solution sounds good to
me. Also note http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-05/msg00767.html
HTH
Martin
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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 15:56
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: AW: Area under a percentile point
What you want is a bit strange, but here is how I would do it:
sort myvar
keep if _n<0.75*_N
hope this helps,
Jeph
zeynep elitaş wrote:
> Thanks for help, but this does not solve my problem. As a simple
> example, lets assume we have a data set containing five 6's and five
> 7's. so the sample size is 10. Now if I wanted to keep the data values
> below the 75 th percentile, I would roughly have 7 observations
> remaining. However, following your suggestion I end up keeping all the
> observations.
> Thanks
> Zeynep Elitas
>
> 2009/2/3 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>> <>
>>
>> Let`s keep those below the 75 percentile of generated normal deviates...
>>
>> *************
>> clear*
>> set obs 1000
>> generate x=rnormal()
>> _pctile x, p(75)
>> keep if x<=r(r1)
>> *************
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von zeynep
elitas
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 14:28
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: st: Area under a percentile point
>>
>> I have a simple question which I do not have the answer for. Is there
>> a way to tell Stata to keep the data under a certain percentile point
>> and drop the rest? This is important since in my data a percentile
>> point has often the same value as the ones below and over it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Zeynep Elitaş
>>
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