Re: st: sort

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 08:45 PM 6/20/2005 -0400, Luhang Wang wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I have some question regarding the use of sort. Would anyone tell me
> some potential reasons for getting  different results by running
>
> sort id
> drop if id==id[_n-1]
>
> Thanks and best,
> Luhang
Look at the help for -sort-.  As noted in the help, "Without the stable 
option, the ordering of observations with equal values of varlist is 
randomized."  So, if you always want the same results, you should use the 
-stable- option.


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