Re: st: ranking variables on the basis of total values of observations

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't know what -rowsum- is here.

Thanks, but this doesn't get me much closer. Of course, if other
people can work out what you want, they should chip in.

Please _show_ what you want it changed to, as I asked earlier.  No
word description, just what the dataset would like look after changes.

Nick

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:49 PM, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:

>        date      var2   var3   var4
> 1. 05jan2010        3      1     7
> 2. 06jan2010        2      3     6
> 3. 07jan2010        4      4     5
> 4. 08jan2010        1      2     4
> 5. 09jan2010        5      8     3
> 6. 10jan2010        8      9     2
> 7. 11jan2010        4      6     3
> 8. 12jan2010        3      3     8
> 9. 13jan2010        1      2     3
>

> Say, I would like to rank var2  for certain period of time say (05jan2010-09jan2010). So, I would have Stata add the obs values from 05jan2010 to 09jan2010 for all the variables and rank var2 like 1st or 2nd or 3rd. I looked at rowsum. I don't think it will help.

>> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:34:58 +0100
>> Subject: Re: st: ranking variables on the basis of total values of observations
>> From: njcoxstata@gmail.com
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>>
>> As far as I can see this could mean several things. I am not clear
>> that when you say "rank" you don't mean "order" instead.
>>
>> I don't think you want -rowranks- (SSC).
>>
>> Why not just give us a toy dataset, with say 5 observations and 5
>> variables, and what you want to change it to? Then it should be easier
>> to see what you want.
>>
>> By the way, adding lots of blank lines just makes your posts more
>> difficult to read. I've edited what came in.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a list of variables and I would like to rank the variables or any given variable for that matter on the basis of total values of their observations. I thought of approaching this problem in the following way.
>> >
>> > 1. find the running sum of all the variables using generate or the total using egen although I think I would prefer generate.
>> >
>> > say there are var1 var2 var3
>> >
>> > gen tvar1=sum(var1)
>> > gen tvar2=sum(var2)
>> > gen tvar3=sum(var3)
>> >
>> > 2. then compare tvar1, tvar2 and tvar3 using if conditions.
>> >
>> > Once this is done, I would like to expand such that I can rank those variables but for given period of time. And this is essentially why I think generate sum is better for this problem because it is a running sum.
>>
>> > say date var1 var2 var3
>> >
>> > I would like to be able to rank variables say for 01jan2011 to 01feb2011 and so on.
>> >
>> > Has anyone worked in this kind of problem before or does anyone have any idea or thought regarding this problem? Any help or lead would be highly appreciated? I saw that there is a stata module rowranks to calculate ranks in a row but i don't know how can it be useful to me. Most probably not....

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