Re: st: Question about graph bar

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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If you had an over() grouping, you could use the sort() sub option, but that doesn't seem to mesh with your data structure.  One quick way I know to get the sorting to work in this case is to use -statplot- (from SSC; use -findit- or type -ssc install statplot-  ) of which I am an author.   Here's an example:
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//create some fake data:
clear
set obs 100
forval n = 1/10 {
	g q`n' = rbinomial(1, .4)
	}
	g one = 1

//graph w. statplot:
preserve
**for bar labels:
forval n = 1/10 {
	replace q`n' = 100*q`n'
	}

statplot q1-q10, varopts(sort(1)) blabel(bar) ytit(% Answ. Yes)
restore
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- Eric

On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:32 PM, O'Brien, Rachel H wrote:

> Hi.  I am trying to create a bar graph for the means of 10 different variables.   Each variable is an indicator for whether or not the survey respondent answered yes to a question (and the respondent could have said yes to multiple questions).  I would like STATA to order the bars (variables) by the mean (most frequent --> least frequent).  Is there an option or anything that will do this?  I know I can do this manually by ordering the variables in the graph bar command based on their means, but I thought I would check if there is a more automatic way.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rachel O'Brien
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