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st: RE: Random sorting
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Random sorting
Date
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:27:27 -0800 (PST)
Right. It only takes 2 lines, though 4 lines would be better. For example,
. set seed 12345
. tempvar sortorder
. gen `sortorder' = runiform()
. sort `sortorder'
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Edgington
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:22 PM
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> Subject: st: RE: Random sorting
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> .
> You can create a random variable and sort on that. Look at the help for
> random-number functions.
> -Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Molina
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:15 PM
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> Subject: st: Random sorting
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> Hi all,
> I would like to randomly sort my data set.
> And i cannot find a command to do that.
> Is there any?
> Thank you all in advance!
> LM
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