Re: st: -egen rank ()

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Did you try the /track/ option?

Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:
> 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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