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Re: st: xtile command; Stata 10
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David Muller <[email protected]>
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Re: st: xtile command; Stata 10
Date
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:18:32 +1000
Chances are your original variable contains many ties.
Cheers,
David
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM, pouya_e <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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