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Re: st: Ranking of variables by means afterr -univar- or -summarize-


From   Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Ranking of variables by means afterr -univar- or -summarize-
Date   Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:28:16 +0900

Herve Stolowy wrote:

I have about 50 variables. I get the mean with -univar- [redacted ]
or -summarize-.

univar var1 ... var50
summarize var1 ... var50

Is there a way to rank (descending order) the variables by there mean?

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Try the following.

Joseph Coveney


clear
set more off
set seed `=date("2007-01-27", "ymd")'
set obs 100
forvalues i = 1/50 {
   generate float var`i' = `i' + uniform()
}
*
* Begin here
*
collapse (mean) var*
generate byte row = 1
reshape long var, i(row) j(variable_nr)
egen rank = rank(var), field // track or field
*
* Done
*
gsort -var
list , noobs abbreviate(15)
exit

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