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st: Issue on sorting on categorical variables
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"Grigolon, Laura" <[email protected]>
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st: Issue on sorting on categorical variables
Date
Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:14:22 +0000
Dear Statalisters,
I have an issue about sorting on categorical variables.
I sorted on a variable that does not have unique values for every observation in the data and subsequently I referred to the order within the group by generating a variable id = _n. I then used the id number to replace values (such as: replace variable = 10 if id==100).
I realize that my approach is wrong, as explained in the FAQ (http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/sort.html), since Stata does not keep the same ordering. However, since I implemented a huge amount of modifications, I was wondering if there is a way to be able to run the do file again and obtain the same results.
Thank you for your help,
Laura
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