Re: st: RE: rank error?

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 13:29 28-5-2003, you wrote:
> If one wants to do a certain operation on all obs with -var1-==X,
> indexing through all the values of X, and do so in order of increasing
> X, then the value of such a ranking becomes obvious.
Somehwat rethoric question as I'm not sure:
Can't that be accomplished also with:

sort X
egen rankvar=group(X)

?

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