st: converting continuous var to ordinal with equal obs numbers per group

[Nikolaos Pandis <npandis@yahoo.com>]

Hi to all,

I  a continuous variable (age) with a range from 15-86 and around 1500 observations.
How could I convert it into an ordinal variable with equal number of observations per group, given that I would like to have around 15 groups.

Many thanks,

Nikolaos


      
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