See
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/pcrank.html
and try:
clear
input x wanted
1 1
1 1
15 2
15 2
47 3
47 3
end
g long obs=_n
sort x
g long noskip=sum(x!=x[_n-1]) if x<.
sort obs
list, noo clean
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alexey Bessudnov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have an interval variable v1 with values 1,1,15,15, 47, 47, etc. and I
> want to recode it into a rank variable v2 so that 1=1, 15=2, 47=3, etc. Is
> there any simple way to do this automatically? I have tried -egen rank,
> track-, but it returns v3.
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