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Alexey,
what you want is not technically a rank. -egen, rank- will give you
ranks, taking all observations into account, and resolving ties. What
you want can be done with -egen- also:
sort v1
egen rank = group(v1)
Hope this helps,
Eva
2009/4/17 Alexey Bessudnov <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>
> +------------+
> | v1 v2 v3 |
> |------------|
> 1. | 1 1 1 |
> 2. | 1 1 1 |
> 3. | 15 2 3 | 4. | 15 2 3 | 5. | 47 3 5 | 6. | 47 3 5
> |
> +------------+
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Alexey Bessudnov
> DPhil student in sociology
> St.Antony's College, Oxford University
>
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