CENTCALC: Stata module to calculate distribution-based centiles

Patrick Royston () and Eileen Wright ()
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Patrick Royston: MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UK
Eileen Wright: University of Strathclyde, UK

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: centcalc calculates distribution-based centiles from user-supplied parameter values for location (mvar), scale (svar) and shape (gamma and delta). The distributions are all transformations of the Normal (Gaussian) distribution.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.0
Keywords: centiles; distribution functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-03-28, Revised 2011-01-21
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install centcalc". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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