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Re: st: sorting a string variable, but not alphabetically


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Subject   Re: st: sorting a string variable, but not alphabetically
Date   Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:24:09 +0900

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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">TEWODAJ MOGUES&#160; wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">. . . I also considered transposing the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">data then ordering the animal variables but I couldn't find a way to </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">make stata transpose and use as its new variables the observations of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">-animals- </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'm not sure that transposing and ordering is the best way to go for 800 observations, 
but you can transpose string variables with -sxpose-.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">-myfindit transpose string- will find it.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Joseph Coveney</span></font></div>
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