Yes It's possible <\hansl> open galton scalar firstquart = quantile(parent, 0.25) <hansl\> Hope this help On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Leandro Zipitria < leandro.zipitria(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Dear Gretl community: > > is there any way to obtain a specific quantile of a given series. By now > there is a function for the media and the median, but is there any way to > obtain the 80% of the distribution, or the first quantile? > > Regards, > Leandro > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > -- Ahmadou H. DICKO Data scientist and applied economist PhD student in Climate change economics Faculty of economics and managment - Cheikh Anta Diop University West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adaptated Land Use (WASCAL) Center for Development Research (ZEF) - University of Bonn twitter : @dickoah skype : dicko.ahmadou.h tel : +221 33 827 55 16 portable: +221 77 123 81 69 _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users