Drop specific observations in a specific quantile.

[Amir Moayeri]

I have a dataset containing two variables: TE and EE. I use this command to generate 5 quantiles of TE:

xtile Q= TE, nq(5)

then I want to delete all values of EE less than 50 in the 3^rd quantile of TE. I use command bellow, but I get this error: ‘=exp not allowed’. What command should I use?

drop if Q=3 & EE<50

[Joro Kolev]

Try

 
 drop if Q==3 & EE<50

[Joro Kolev]

In Stata the symbol "=" is an assignment operator, it assigns what is on the right to the stated thing on the left. On the other hand the symbol "==" is a logical operator checking whether the left and right hand side are equal.

[Amir Moayeri]

Thank you. Sorry for such a dumb question.

[Joro Kolev]

Thank you. Sorry for such a dumb question.

There are no dumb questions... only dumb answers :P.