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Shuffle a list of items (Stata 8)

        shuffle8 list , [ num noisily ]


Description

    shuffle8 randomly sorts the specified items (words, numbers).

    Note: shuffle8 is slow if the number of items is large (>100). shuffle
    for Stata 9 is much faster (see ssc describe shuffle).


Options

    num specifies that list be treated as numlist (see help numlist).

    noisily displays the sorted list.


Examples

        . set seed 23897

        . shuffle8 a b c, noisily
        c a b

        . shuffle8 1/10, num noisily
        7 8 4 9 2 5 6 1 10 3

        . shuffle8 she said "my cat is black", noisily
        said "my cat is black" she


Saved Results

    Macros:

    r(list) shuffled list


Author

    Ben Jann, ETH Zurich, jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch


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