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st: re-sorting by the same variable or storing a permutation vector?
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László Sándor <[email protected]>
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st: re-sorting by the same variable or storing a permutation vector?
Date
Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:04:27 -0400
Wise peers,
Allow me another question, hopefully of general interest: If I would
need to resort to re-sorting (pun intended) my data multiple times, am
I not better off if I store a permutation vector (after the first
sort, obviously) in a variable and just reapply that? Is there a
faster way to do that than invoking Mata and putting my entire data
over there? (A monster st_view() if there ever was one.) I know Mata
allows fast sorting and permutation vectors (/ subscripting). Is that
the efficient way to go?
http://stata.com/help.cgi?[M-5]+sort()
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0028
Thanks for any thoughts on this too,
Laszlo
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