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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: reading value labels -- second and third largest values |
| Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2012 07:59:50 +0000 |
On #1, you will find some technique in the code for -extremes- (SSC). Nick On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jakob Pohlisch <mailjp@gmx.net> wrote: > 1. The command summarize is computing the 4 largest and smallest values. > Unfortunately the command is not storing them for the reason that it is a > build in command i cannot manipulate it to do so. To get this values from a > dataset is not that hard. i would just sort the values and take the values > of the observations _N, _N-1 and so on. But if i would like to use the > bysort "command" i would have to get the values of "subsamples" of my > datatset. This is not to hard if i use the preserve and restore commands. > But these commands unfortunately are VERY time-consuming. I have really big > datasets on hand and would like to obtain those values without the preserve > and restore commands. Any idea? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/