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Re: st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
Date
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:06:06 +0000
On 25 Márta 2010, at 10:30, Karen Wright wrote:
Dear All,
I have a diagnosis (string) variable which can take the value: B, A,
H, S, Q or I. Stata (10.0) cleverly changes this order to an
alphabetical order, however this does not make sense when trying to
display a simple histogram of the distribution. I would like to
force stata to display them in my original order as it is sensible
when considering the ordering of the diagnosis catergories.
Use sencode, one of those utilities you simply must have. Define the
label first, then use it to map the encoding.
. lab def dx 1 "B" 2 "A" 3 "H" 4 "S" 5 "Q" 6 "I",modify
. sencode dx, label(dx) replace
Ronan Conroy
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