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Re: st: Sums and means for each decile
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Sums and means for each decile
Date
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:15:22 +0100
What's -decile-?
You're right about -pctile-. But what do you want?
sums, means of some variable y in classes determined by selected
percentiles of another variable x?
sums, means of a variable x in classes determined by selected
percentiles of the same variable x?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Charles Vellutini
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have looked at -decile- and -pctile- but neither provides the sums and means of each decile/percentile (only the cutoffs), if I am not mistaken.
>
> One could of course recover the cutoffs from -decile- and program this by hand. There is also the excellent -glcurve- available from SSC but this produces graphs; it creates variables that, yes, could also be used to compute the sums I suppose.
>
> But I thought that someone surely programmed this already?
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