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Re: st: sorting boxplots on the median


From   Nikolaos Pandis <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: sorting boxplots on the median
Date   Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:50:14 -0800 (PST)

Nick,
Many thanks!
Nick



________________________________
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
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 <[email protected]> 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):
>
>
> .graph box percent,over(journalno, sort(percent) descending )
>
> However, it does not work. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> If I use:
>
>
> graph bar percent,over(journalno,  sort(percent) descending )
>
>
> it works and sorts by the value of the mean
>
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