st: RE: Question about tabsort (shorter alternative)

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I just replied to Rodrigo Briceno 

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> His code is similar, if I'm understanding properly:  
> 
> bysort clave1 : gen freq = _N 
> egen tag = tag(clave1) 
> gsort - tag - freq 
> gen order = _n 
> tabdisp order in 1/10 if tag, c(clave1 freq) 
> 

That's all using official Stata. 

Here's an alternative solution, using the 
-egen- function -egroup()- downloadable from 
-egenmore-, and discussed yesterday on Statalist. 
Note the minus sign in the first command. 

bysort clave1 : gen freq = - _N 
egen group = egroup(freq clave1) , l(clave1) 
tabulate group if group < 11

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