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RE: st: RE: graph bar labels


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: graph bar labels
Date   Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:05:27 -0000

Ah! I see. Now that is fairly simple. It's just
that -graph bar- is not the best way to do it. 
-- or indeed a way to do it at all. 

egen percent = mean(100 * foreign), by(rep78) 
egen total = sum(1), by(rep78) 

twoway bar percent rep78, barw(0.5) || 
	scatter percent rep78, mlabel(total) mlabpos(12) 
	ms(none) legend(off) yti(percent foreign) 

I follow the convention here that percents add to 100, 
not 1. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Ricardo Ovaldia
 
> Thank you Nick. Actualy what I was trying to do is
> very simple (I thought).
> 
> Useing the auto data. I collapse to get percentages
> and totals by -rep78- using:
> 
> .collapse (mean)  percent=foreign (count)
> total=foreign,by(rep78)
> 
> This yields:
> 
>         rep78   percent     total
>   1.        1         0         2
>   2.        2         0         8
>   3.        3        .1        30
>   4.        4        .5        18
>   5.        5   .818182        11
>   6.        .        .2         5
> 
> Note that these are the six bars to be plotted.
> (actualy only 5)
> 
> I can graph using:
> 
> . graph bar  percent, over( rep78)
> 
> But I want the variable -total- on on top of each
> graph.
> 
> Ricardo.
> 
> 
> --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Obviously you are a discriminating person 
> > you knows exactly what you want from Stata. 
> > Sooner or later you will have to become 
> > a programmer. 
> > 
> > I am not quite clear how your percents 
> > are to be calculated, over all the values 
> > or within each group. 
> > 
> > Here is one way for the first case. You know that
> > there are 
> > 69 values for which -foreign- and -rep78- 
> > are not missing. You ask for a -catplot- 
> > showing frequency. But you fix the y axis
> > so that it shows percent. A tool for 
> > doing this is -mylabels- from SSC. 
> > 
> > . mylabels 0(10)40, myscale(@ * .69) local(la)
> > 0 "0" 6.9 "10" 13.8 "20" 20.7 "30" 27.6 "40"
> > 
> > . catplot bar rep78 foreign,  blabel(bar,
> > position(outside))   yla(`la') ytitle(percent) 
> > 
> > So, for example, the label "40" appears at 
> > where 27.6 would be shown on the frequency
> > scale, because 40% of 69 is 27.6. 
> > 
> > Nick 
> > [email protected] 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On
> > Behalf Of Ricardo
> > > Ovaldia
> > > Sent: 10 November 2005 18:08
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: st: RE: graph bar labels
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Not exactly, Nick. I basicaly plooting one
> > variable
> > > (percetage) over -rep78-, but will like the total
> > > number of observations that when into calculating
> > each
> > > percentage on top of each bar.
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > Ricardo.
> > > 
> > > --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There may be an official Stata solution, but
> > what 
> > > > I would recommend is that you try -catplot- from
> > > > SSC. 
> > > > -catplot- appeared early in the life of Stata 8
> > > > given 
> > > > the discovery that -graph bar- is not that good
> > at 
> > > > counting.  
> > > > 
> > > > . catplot bar rep78 foreign,  blabel(bar,
> > > > position(outside))   
> > > > 
> > > > Is that what you want? 
> > > > 
> > > > Nick 
> > > > [email protected] 
> > > > 
> > > > Ricardo Ovaldia
> > > >  
> > > > > I will like to place the number of observation
> > on
> > > > top
> > > > > of each bar.  For example, using the auto
> > data:
> > > > > . sysuse auto, clear
> > > > > . collapse (mean)  foreign (count)
> > > > > total=foreign,by(rep78)
> > > > > . graph bar  foreign, over( rep78)
> > > > > 
> > > > > What I want is the number in the variable
> > -total-
> > > > on
> > > > > top of the corresonding graph.  I have not
> > been
> > > > able
> > > > > to do this and -blabel()- does not help.
> > > > 

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