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Re: st: Kernel Density Estimate Percentiles
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Kernel Density Estimate Percentiles
Date
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:21:18 +0000
I don't know of such a command and I think it's because it is not an
obvious route to follow.
-kdensity- smooths the empirical density function. To go from a
smoothed density function back to quantiles, you would need to
integrate the result to a distribution function and get its inverse.
But the results will inevitably differ slightly depending on choice of
kernel type and width.
-hdquantile- (SSC) offers one recipe for smoothing quantiles directly,
but based on different ideas.
That said, it's an unusual distribution if the 20, 50, 80% percentiles
differ much between original and smoothed distribution. This could
arise if the original distribution took on just a few distinct
values, but in that case it is moot whether -kdensity- is a good idea.
Nick
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Sakib bin Salam <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am interested in finding the percentiles values after a kernal
> density estimation. I used Kdensity to generate a kernel density
> estimate. Is there a command that displays the 20th, 50th and 80th
> percentiles?
>
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