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st: RE: Percentiles and weights


From   "David Radwin" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Percentiles and weights
Date   Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT)

Maybe -epctile- from Stas Kolenikov, available from his website (see
below)? I don't know about the linear interpolation part.

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-05/msg00077.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Tougher
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Percentiles and weights
> 
> Dear statalist,
> 
> Is there a way to estimate percentiles in Stata that uses linear
> interpolation, and allows probability weights?  The altdef option of the
-
> pctile- command does not allow weights.
> 
> Specifically, we would like to find a command or user-generated
programme
> that uses the same formula as the one used by SAS to estimate quantiles
in
> the SURVEYMEANS procedure. Refer to:
>
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/view
> er.htm#statug_surveymeans_a0000000223.htm
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Sarah Tougher
> London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
> 
> 
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