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Chapter 7 Reshaping Data 225
Sorting Data Tables
Creating a Subset Data Table from a Report
These two methods produce linked subsets of a data table.
Using a Histogram
After you produce output that contains a histogram (by selecting Analyze > Distribution), you can use
the histogram to create a new data table containing the data in the histogram’s highlighted bars.
To create a subset, double-click a highlighted bar. Or, right-click (Ctrl-click on the Macintosh)
anywhere in the histogram and select Subset from the menu. The subset table appears, as shown in
Figure 7.2.
Figure 7.2 Subset Created from a Histogram
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Using a Pareto Plot
After you produce output that contains a Pareto Plot (by selecting Graph > Pareto Plot), you can use
the Pareto Plot to create a new data table containing the data in the Pareto Plot’s highlighted bars. To
create a subset, double-click a highlighted bar.
Sorting Data Tables
You can sort a JMP data table by columns in either ascending or descending order. By default, columns
sort in ascending order. You can either create a new table that contains the sorted values, or you can
replace the original table with the sorted table.
If columns contain value labels, sorting is based on the actual data values, not the value labels. (See
“Using Value Labels,” p. 147.) However, the value labels are displayed in the sorted data table.
A column that your sorting that uses either the Value Ordering property or the List Check property is
sorted according to that order.
To sort: