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Re: st: RE: Manipulating tabulation output so rows are sorted by value of column...


From   Rieza Soelaeman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Manipulating tabulation output so rows are sorted by value of column...
Date   Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:50:37 -0600

Nick--thank you

rhs

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> -table- is at first sight a dead end here, as there is no such sorting option.
>
> Although I can imagine devious work-arounds, I think you will get most flexibility just by creating a reduced dataset and -sort-ing in exactly the way the want.
>
> You said increasing order, but your examples are decreasing, but you can have it either way.
>
> Consider
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
>
> . drop if missing(rep78)
>
> . collapse mpg , by(foreign rep78)
>
> . gsort foreign -mpg
>
> . format mpg %2.1f
>
> . l, sepby(foreign) noobs
>
>  +-------------------------+
>  | rep78    foreign    mpg |
>  |-------------------------|
>  |     5   Domestic   32.0 |
>  |     1   Domestic   21.0 |
>  |     2   Domestic   19.1 |
>  |     3   Domestic   19.0 |
>  |     4   Domestic   18.4 |
>  |-------------------------|
>  |     5    Foreign   26.3 |
>  |     4    Foreign   24.9 |
>  |     3    Foreign   23.3 |
>  +-------------------------+
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Rieza Soelaeman
>
>
> Supposing I have the following data:
> Name   Year    Value
> AA    1990 985
> AA    1990 246
> AA    2000 237
> AA    2000 560
> BB    1990 457
> BB    1990 742
> BB    2000 985
> BB    2000 154
> CC    1990 799
> CC    1990 656
> CC    2000 980
> CC    2000 812
>
>
> And I want to see results displayed as follows (take the average of
> the value for each name, and display by year, sorted by mean(value)):
>
> YEAR==1990
> Name mean(value)
> CC   727.5
> AA   615.5
> BB   599.5
>
> and
>
> YEAR==2000
> Name mean(value)
> AA   599.5
> BB   569.5
> CC   357.5
>
>
> How would I modify my existing code such that the results are
> displayed in increasing order of mean(value),
> so I can see easily which name had the highest mean(value)?
>
> .table Name if Year==1990, contents(mean value)
> .table Name if Year==2000, contents(mean value)
>
> Is there an in-line sort option that goes with the table command?
>
> Right now the result is not displayed in any specific way.
>
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