At 09:54 AM 6/29/2005 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
The essence of Florence's problem is that two (or more) variables
be sorted together. How would this -egen- function be used
to achieve that?
Looks like you make repeated calls to the function, e.g.
. webuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. egen xprice = clsort(price)
. egen xmpg = clsort(mpg)
. list price xprice mpg xmpg in 1/5
+-----------------------------+
| price xprice mpg xmpg |
|-----------------------------|
1. | 4,099 3291 22 12 |
2. | 4,749 3299 17 12 |
3. | 3,799 3667 22 14 |
4. | 4,816 3748 20 14 |
5. | 7,827 3798 15 14 |
+-----------------------------+
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