PERCAT: Stata module to perform percentile-based categorisation

Mehmet Mehmetoglu ()
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Mehmet Mehmetoglu: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: With percat, one can categorise a continous variable based on percentiles provided by the programme. The default option is the 50th percentile (median), meaning that percat will convert the chosen variable into a dummy variable using the median split procedure.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 13.1
Keywords: percentiles; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-01-25
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install percat". 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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