Ventiles

[Lindsey Buck]

Hello,

I want to take a variable of mine, put it into ventiles, then use collapse to graph the means in each ventile. Can you help with this? I tried with the sumdist command but something isn't working quite right.
Thanks!

[Ali Atia]

Something along these lines?

clear
set obs 100
gen var = runiformint(0,100)
//starting here
xtile ventiles = var,nquantiles(20)
collapse (mean) var,by(ventiles)

[Nick Cox]

On the face of it xtile should get you started.

sumdist is from SSC. It's hard to comment on what you did without seeing code and/or an error message or story on what happened precisely.