st: rank error?

[Jeph Herrin <herrin@flyingbuttress.net>]

Hi all,

According to the documentation, egen's -rank- function should,
with -field- or -track- switches, give me consecutive ranks. Yet
when I try:

. egen rank=rank(var1), track

I get non-consecutive ranks:

. tab rank

 track rank |
 of (beta1) |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |          5        0.83        0.83
          6 |          5        0.83        1.66
         11 |          6        1.00        2.66
         17 |          8        1.33        3.99
         25 |          8        1.33        5.32
         33 |          4        0.67        5.99
         .
         .
         .

I've been looking at this for half an hour and finally figured
either there's something wrong with egen's rank, or there's something
wrong with me.

Any opinions?

cheers,
Jeph
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Jeph Herrin
herrin@flyingbuttress.net

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