Re: st: Programming: Ranking hospitals according to admissions in a dataset with patient level data

[Andreas Schmid <andreas.schmid@uni-bayreuth.de>]

Maarten's suggestion works great! Thx a lot to him and all the others 
who offered advice! :)

Am 19.07.2010 17:13, schrieb Maarten buis:
> --- On Mon, 19/7/10, Andreas Schmid wrote:
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> > I am working with a patient dataset which contains
> > information on each admitted patient as well as on the
> > according hospitals. For further steps I need a rank number
> > for each hospital according to admissions per year. The
> > variable "admissions" already exists. As for each hospital
> > there are a couple of thousand observations (i.e. patients),
> > I can not just use egen ranking = rank(admissions), as this
> > would try to rank each individual observation.
> >
> > Is there any way to generate a variable ranking that gives
> > in each observation the same rank for one particular
> > hospital?
> >      
> bys hospital_id: gen byte first = _n == 1
> gen nonfirst = !first
> sort admissions hospital_id notfirst
> gen long hospital_rank = sum(first)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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