Unable to select segment item through program

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi All, I’m siva and I’m new to ionic 2 and angular 2 .This issue is related to ion-segment component.
in my program I want to select particular segment item programatically from class but i couldn’t achieve this even after using ngmodel and kindly fine my below code and html template.

map.ts
import {Page, NavController} from ‘ionic-angular’;
import {Renderer,ElementRef} from ‘@angular/core’;
import{NgControl} from ‘@angular/common’

@Page({
templateUrl: ‘build/pages/map/map.html’

})
export class MapPage {
/water new order variable=/
can_count:number;

constructor(
private nav: NavController) {
this.can_count=2;
/this.initializeItems();/
}
}

and HTML template is

map.html
" 

<ion-list no-lines>

<!-- number of can -->

<ion-card>

  <ion-card-header>
     Number of water can : {{can_count}}
  </ion-card-header>

  <ion-card-content>
    <ion-segment  [(ngModel)]="can_count" inverse>
    <ion-segment-button value="1" >
      1
    </ion-segment-button>
    <ion-segment-button value="2">
      2
    </ion-segment-button>
     <ion-segment-button value="3">
      3
    </ion-segment-button>
     <ion-segment-button value="4">
      4
    </ion-segment-button>
     <ion-segment-button value="5">
      5
    </ion-segment-button>
  </ion-segment>

</ion-card>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>

"

kindly anybody help me on this to select segment item through program.

2

I don’t know, can it actually be used like that, have you looked closely here?