The -clsort- EGEN function (findit _gclsort) might be your friend here,
if, as Scott suggests, you have the data stored as variables. You could
go
gsort - Y
egen Xnew = clsort(X)
replace Xnew = Y if Y>Xnew
You need to check but that should be near what you want if I understand
correctly.
Hope this helps,
Philippe
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IRISS - Integrated Research Infrastructure in
the Socio-Economic Sciences
CEPS/INSTEAD
BP48, L-4501 Differdange, Luxembourg
>> http://www.ceps.lu/iriss <<
>> http://econpapers.hhs.se/RAS/pva19.htm <<
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