Re: st: Question about tabsort (shorter alternative)

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

Rodrigo Brice�o wrote:

> I'm using one procedure that Nick gave me few weeks ago. But I have one
> problem that I don't know how to resolve.
>
> The solution provided was:
>
> bysort clave1 : gen freq = - _N 
> egen group = egroup(freq clave1) , l(clave1) 
> tabulate group if group < 11 
> And I trying to use the same sintaxis to obtain from the variable
> "diagnostico" the 10 most frequent diagnoses for an hospital.
> The error ocurres in the second step of the procedure. The variable is
> str40.
>
> egen group=egroup(freq diagnostico), I(diagnostico)
> I() invalid
this is an "I" for "l"  typo for the abbreviated -,label(lblvarlist)- option of 
the egenmore egroup() function.

i.e. I(diagnostico) should be l(diagnostico)

- Gary




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