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st: xtile command; Stata 10


From   pouya_e <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: xtile command; Stata 10
Date   Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT)

Greetings,

I cannot find out why the xtile command in Stata does not give me
approximately equal number of observations for each quantile :


. xtile quintileDSO=DSO, n(5)

. 
. ta quintileDSO

5 quantiles |
     of DSO |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |        427       21.58       21.58
          2 |        401       20.26       41.84
          3 |        385       19.45       61.29
          4 |        455       22.99       84.28
          5 |        311       15.72      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |      1,979      100.00

. 



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