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Re: st: generating variable that reflects order of values of another variable


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: generating variable that reflects order of values of another variable
Date   Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:38:29 +0000

This sounds like ranking to me.

At its very simplest, this could be just

sort var1
gen var2 = _n

but -if- or -in- qualifiers, missing values and tied values could mess
things up.

See help on -egen-'s -rank()- function for a more general tool,
including options for different ranking conventions.

Nick

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Rubil Ivica <[email protected]> wrote:

> Suppose I have N observations on a variable var1. How to generate
> another variable var2 which takes on values 1 to N, where 1 is assigned
> to the observation with the lowest value of var1, N is assigned to the
> observation with the highest value of var1, and all other values between
> 1 and N are assigned accordingly?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Ivica Rubil
>
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