st: -egen rank ()

["Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" <npatsop@cc.uoi.gr>]

Hi,

I want to create a variable containing the rank order of another one but 
I cannot make tie corrections:

the data:

v6      countMain  
aaa      374
bbb      213 
ccc      204 
gvfdg   193
gfdg      170
gfdh      166

I use egen rankMain=rank( countMain) if   counter_v6==1, field   
#counter_v6 is a _n variable for v6

if I don't use the /field/ parameter I get the reverse order of that I 
want, e.g. aaa gets a rank of 4880 instead of 1. However using field 
doesn't correct for ties (want to use the average for ties).

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Nikos

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