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Example: Ranking and Ordering Vectors
1. Define a vector.
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2. Use the Rank function to get the sorted positions of each element of the vector.
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3. Use the order function to get the indices in which the elements of the vector are sorted.
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4. Modify the vector so that it has two identical elements and call Rank and order.
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For identical elements, Rank returns an average of the indices where the values occur after sorting. The order function generates sequential indices based on their original order in the vector.