How about :
gen revenue_reversed = revenue * -1
sort revenue_reversed
egen rank=group(revenue_reversed)
Jeremy
On 02/03/2008, Song <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I am trying to create 'rank' based on total revenues. I used the following
> command:
>
> sort revenue
> egen rank=group(revenue)
>
> The result is that the smallest revenue is 1 and the highest revenue is 100,
> for example. How can I reverse the rank? I want the highest revenue to be
> number '1'.
>
> Thank you,
> Reo.
>
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