Re: st: interval variable to rank variable

[Alexey Bessudnov <bessudnov@googlemail.com>]

Austin, Eva - many thanks for both solutions.

Alexey


Austin Nichols wrote:
> See
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/pcrank.html
> and try:
>
> clear
> input x wanted
>  1   1
>  1   1
>  15  2
>  15  2
>  47  3
>  47  3
> end
> g long obs=_n
> sort x
> g long noskip=sum(x!=x[_n-1]) if x<.
> sort obs
> list, noo clean
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alexey Bessudnov
> <bessudnov@googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have an interval variable v1 with values 1,1,15,15, 47, 47, etc. and I
> > want to recode it into a rank variable v2 so that 1=1, 15=2, 47=3, etc. Is
> > there any simple way to do this automatically? I have tried -egen rank,
> > track-, but it returns v3.
> >     

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