Re: st: ranking!!

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 17:07 02/06/03 -0500, Rajiv Mallick wrote:
> I am looking for some suggestion on how to create a ranking scheme when 
> one has a following scenario. Whatever suggestion you may have will be helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Rajiv
>
> Say I have 6 objects " a b c d e f ".  then i have rankings of their 
> bilateral relationships
>
> a - b
> a - c
> a - d
> a - e
> a - f
>
> and
>
> b - c
> b - d
> b - e
> b - f
>
> and so on.
>
> In effect I have 5 rankings for each of a through f.  [Though, it may 
> appear that there are
> 5 rankings for "a" and 4 for "b".....]. They are bilateral.  But I want to 
> create a multilateral rank that summerizes say "a's" ranking over the 
> rest, and "b's" over the rest and so on.
I suspect what you really need is probably the -joinby- package of official 
Stata. Type -help joinby- or read -[R] joinby- to find out more.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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