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RE: st: Right to Left Column Cascade or Adjustment


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Right to Left Column Cascade or Adjustment
Date   Tue, 24 May 2011 17:38:59 +0100

There is a fairly systematic discussion in 

SJ-9-1  pr0046  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: Rowwise
        (help rowsort, rowranks if installed) . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/09   SJ 9(1):137--157
        shows how to exploit functions, egen functions, and Mata
        for working rowwise; rowsort and rowranks are introduced

There is (now) not much difference in effect between my -rowsort- and Jeff Arnold's -sortrows-; note that there is also -rowranks- as well. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Scott Merryman

You could use Jeffrey Arnold's -sortrows- (use -findit- to locate download).

input col1 col2 col3 col4 col5
101 101 . . .
. 111 333 . .
. . . . 935
. . . 23 16
405 .295 . .
end
l
sortrows, replace
l

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:08 AM, David Torres <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's probably a proper name for the process I'd like to carry out.
>
> Say I have five columns of information with staggard cell inputs.  How do I go about moving all the information in a subsequent column back through to the first column for which no information is missing on the row?
>
> I'd like to go from something like this:
>
> Col1   Col2     Col3    Col4    Col5
>
> 101     101
>        111      333
>                                 935
>                        023      016
> 405              295
>
>
> to something like this
>
> Col1   Col2     Col3    Col4    Col5
>
> 101     101
> 111     333
> 935
> 023     016
> 405     295
>

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