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Re: st: gsort issue
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"Brian P. Poi" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: gsort issue
Date
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:27:37 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Jeph Herrin wrote:
I'm with Fred & Nick. After using Stata exclusively for
over a decade, I still find that my intuition about how
Stata will treat a missing value to come short suprisingly
often, and this is another example of where it doesn't do
what I would think.
And Nick Cox wrote:
We will look into implementing an option to -gsort- to put missing values
first with ascending sorts.But -- to the point -- while what Brian says is a fair answer it seems to
me to point to a missing option on -gsort-.
-reallydowantmissingfirst- would not be very Stataish as a name, but Fred
Wolfe's want and need seemed very reasonable to me.
-- Brian Poi
[email protected]
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