Re: st: RE: labels on bar graphs

[David Radwin <radwin@berkeley.edu>]

At 5:48 PM +0100 6/30/08, Nick Cox wrote:
> I did once suggest a percent format to StataCorp -- without eliciting
> any interest.
No interest from StataCorp, perhaps, but this suggestion has appeared 
before on Statalist, so there is obviously some interest from Stata 
users. I am another interested user.

Outside of certain academic disciplines, I suspect it is much more 
typical to portray fractions in the form of percentages, such as "41% 
of households do X" rather than the Stata graph label default "0.41 
of households do X."

It seems to me that this feature would be simple to implement and 
would appeal to a wider range of potential users than highly 
specialized estimation methods with names like "fixed effects 
instrumental variables nonlinear multinomial probit mixed models for 
heteroscedastic censored data with bootstrapped standard errors." 
It's not that the latter doesn't have its place, but it would be nice 
for the rest of us to put percentages on graph labels without jumping 
through hoops.

Maybe we just need to lobby StataCorp more?

David Radwin
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