st: test difference in quintiles

[Susanne Neckermann <sneckermann@iew.uzh.ch>]

Hi!

I want to test whether the difference in the fifth percentile of two  
distributions is significant.
In principle, this test should be similar to the "median" (thats the  
name of the command) test already implemented in Stata, but  
unfortunately I cannot program .ado files and I could not find a user- 
written procedure.
Any idea how to go about this?
P.S. the number of observations in the fifth percentile is pretty low  
(around 6), so one might have to use something with bootstrap or  
permutations.

Thank you so much in advance
susanne



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