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Re: st: bug in -xtile-
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"Dr. Yu Chen" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: bug in -xtile-
Date
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:21:56 -0600
Nick, if this is -xtile- point of view, then it will not work if I
delete observations whose value<5000. See my code below.
In other words, in the first example I added an if condition, and in
the second example, I deleted those observations. Why is the result
different? I think this is an inconsistency in -xtile-.
sysuse auto,clear
keep in 1/10
drop if price<5000
xtile decile=price , nq(10)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> In your example 6 values qualify as < 5000. -xtile- classifies into 10
> classes as best it can
>
> (Here -groups- is from SSC.)
>
> . groups price decile, sep(0)
>
> +----------------------------------+
> | price decile Freq. Percent |
> |----------------------------------|
> | 3,799 1 1 16.67 |
> | 4,082 2 1 16.67 |
> | 4,099 4 1 16.67 |
> | 4,453 6 1 16.67 |
> | 4,749 7 1 16.67 |
> | 4,816 9 1 16.67 |
> +----------------------------------+
>
> You seem to be saying that they should not be classified if there are
> less than 10. That's a point of view, but it is not -xtile-'s point of
> view.
>
> The values are of the new variable are not equally spaced integers,
> but they could not be given the request.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Dr. Yu Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think there is a bug in -xtile-. I ran the code below, and I still
>> got deciles, but they are incomplete. I would expect missing values
>> because there are not enough observations.
>> I use Stata 12.
>>
>> sysuse auto,clear
>> keep in 1/10
>> xtile decile=price if price<5000, nq(10)
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