At 08:39 AM 12/20/2004 -0800, Gabriel Demombynes wrote:
use temp, clear
sort cluster
li
This produces different results each time. Although
the dataset is sorted by cluster each time, the order
within cluster is different.
Is this a general phenomenon, or is this somehow
particular to my data? This is an older dataset, with
variables originally created in version 6.
Add the -stable- option to sort. See -help sort-
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