Quite so. Thanks,
Nick
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Richard Williams
> 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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