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Re: AW: st: RE: sort on month

From	David Kantor <[email protected]>
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Subject	Re: AW: st: RE: sort on month
Date	Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:57:25 -0400

At 09:35 AM 9/8/2009, Martin Weiss wrote:

-encode- is the wrong tool, as it assigns numeric codes arbitrarily.

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I believe it is not arbitrary. It works, apparently (in Stata 10), onalphabetic order, which would yield the same result as the string version.


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