Nick,
Many thanks!
Nick
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From: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: st: sorting boxplots on the median
sysuse auto, clear
egen median = median(mpg), by(rep78)
graph box mpg, over(rep78)
graph box mpg, over(rep78, sort(median))
Nick
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Nikolaos Pandis <npandis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying the following command in Stata 12.1 with the objective to sort the boxplots according to the value of the median (ascending or descending it does not matter):
>
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> .graph box percent,over(journalno, sort(percent) descending )
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> However, it does not work. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> If I use:
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> graph bar percent,over(journalno, sort(percent) descending )
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> it works and sorts by the value of the mean
>
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