Re: Estimating actual earnings from earnings groups

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Oct 15, 2018; 12:02pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Estimating-actual-earnings-from-earnings-groups-tp5736859p5736872.html

Try this, John:

RANK VARIABLES = rearn (a) BY year  /ntiles (4).




John F Hall wrote
> Looks as though DM's suggestion about keyword BY is the culprit.
>
> I tried three variations, but none of them worked.
>
> Here's one of them:
>
> rank VARIABLES = rearn (a) /ntiles (4)  into xxxx by year .
>
> --- snip ---





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