Creating Quartiles (Q1 and Q3)

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Thomaaatke
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Creating Quartiles (Q1 and Q3)

Postby Thomaaatke » Fri May 12, 2017 10:17 am

Hi Everyone,


I try to delete the middle 50% of observations by only keeping the 25% lowest (Q1) and 25% highest (Q3) observations. I tried to make Quartiles by proc by classification but when I select 4 quartiles, i don't know how to delete the middel 50% oberservations. Is there an easy way to do this or do i have to use excel for this.

Thanks in advance,

Thomaaatke

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Re: Creating Quartiles (Q1 and Q3)

Postby EViews Gareth » Fri May 12, 2017 10:32 am

Not sure what you mean by "delete", but here's some code that NAs the middle out.

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Series y = @recode(x<@quantile(x,0.25) or x>@quantile(x,0.75), x, na)
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Re: Creating Quartiles (Q1 and Q3)

Postby startz » Fri May 12, 2017 10:35 am

something like
smpl if y<quantile(y,.25) or y>@quantile(y,.75)

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Re: Creating Quartiles (Q1 and Q3)

Postby Thomaaatke » Tue May 16, 2017 4:09 am

Thanks a lot!


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