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st: RE: frequency bar charts of string variables


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: frequency bar charts of string variables
Date   Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:32:12 +0100

There are commands to do this, which I presume is what you want. In
official Stata it is not too difficult. First read in suitable data 

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

Suppose that -foreign- were a string variable, which we can simulate
with 

. decode foreign, gen(Foreign)

Now go 

. gen one = 1

. graph hbar (sum) one, over(Foreign) ytitle(frequency)

However, the user-written command -catplot- from SSC may prove more
convenient. 

. catplot hbar Foreign

For -hbar- read also -bar-, for vertical versions usually more difficult
to read. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Florian Wakolbinger

is there an option in stata to draw bar charts of string variables, i.e.

if the variable contains 40 "yes" and 60 "no", to draw a chart with two 
bars of height 40 and 60?

to put it differently, is there an option to visualize the results of 
the command tab varname


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