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st: RE: Percentiles and weights
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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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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