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

["Karen Wright" <Karen.Wright@icr.ac.uk>]

Ah, I had not actually tried to display the histogram before thinking
that I had wanted them in a certain order.  Apologies for getting a step
ahead of myself!  I suppose the way around that is to do what I had
originally thought of and convert to numeric (in the order I want).  I
only asked the list as I felt there would be a more sophisticated method
than what I was thinking of in an attempt to improve my Stata use!

Thanks for the help though Martin, much appreciated.  (and thanks to
Ronan also)


>>> "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> 25/03/2010 12:12 >>>

<> 

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
*************



HTH
Martin


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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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