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st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
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"Karen Wright" <[email protected]>
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st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
Date
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:30:34 +0000
Dear All,
I have a diagnosis (string) variable which can take the value: B, A, H, S, Q or I. Stata (10.0) cleverly changes this order to an alphabetical order, however this does not make sense when trying to display a simple histogram of the distribution. I would like to force stata to display them in my original order as it is sensible when considering the ordering of the diagnosis catergories.
I could do this by changing the string to a numeric variable but I thought there might be a better way around this?
Karen
The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England under Company No. 534147 with its Registered Office at 123 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RP.
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