Your boss just emailed me that he's not impressed by this post, as he
realises that you won't deserve any credit for a solution. Nevertheless
consider this:
su x, detail
gen y = x > r(p10) if x < .
Nick
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Pancho Villa
It couldn't get more basic than this. I'm creating a binary variable
y. The criteria for y to be equal to one is that the value of x is
greater than its 10th percentile value. Otherwise it'll be zero.
So I tried to this, but it didn't work:
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gen y=0
replace y=1 if x>p10(x)
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Now, I know I can collapse x and get p10 that way, and then use the
p10 value to create y. But I want something just a tiny bit more
elegant to impress my boss.
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