No need to search. Just work it 
out step by step: 
egen mean = mean(cont), by(cat) 
egen sd = sd(cont), by(cat) 
gen upper = mean + sd
gen lower = mean - sd 
scatter mean cat || rcap upper lower cat 
or even 
serrbar mean sd cat 
Nick 
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Syed O Masood
 
> I have to graph Mean +/- SD of a continuous variable
> over categorical variable. So far my search has not
> given me a graph option to plot a dot / bar graph of
> mean SD of a continuous varibale over categorical
> variable.
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