st: AW: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Karen, did you manage to get Stata to display a -histogram- of a string
variable? Does not work for me:


*************
clear*

input str1 stringvar byte freq
B 2
A 4
H  5
S 5
Q 1
I 8
end

expand freq

hist stringvar
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HTH
Martin


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Betreff: st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable

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  


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