mata
y = runiform(10, 10)
_sort((sorted = vec(y)), 1)
sorted[length(sorted)-1]
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 11 April 2013 22:22, Wu Zhang <wuzhang50@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Could you help me find the second largest element of a matrix? I know "max" can find the largest one, but for the second largest?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wu
>
>
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