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st: RE: Too much time to draw a graph


From   "Kieran McCaul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Too much time to draw a graph
Date   Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:18:15 +0800

...

The following ran in a second or so.

Why don't you -set trace on- before you run -histogram- and see what it
is doing.


. clear
. set obs 4445
obs was 0, now 4445

. gen x = 100 + (25*invnormal(uniform()))
. summ x

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
           x |      4445    100.7443    24.92742   8.193512   179.5044

. histogram x, bin(23)
(bin=23, start=8.193512, width=7.4482979)


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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shoji
TOKUNAGA
Sent: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Too much time to draw a graph

Dear Stata users,

I have a problem on drawing a graph with my Stata.  It takes too much
time.

I am running Stata 11/MP on Japanese version of Windows XP.
After I input a line of histogram command on the command window, I
cannot get the graph even after 10 minutes. The data has only 4445
records with around 10 variables. 

Do someone share a similar problem?  Is it a unique problem to Japanese
version of Window XP, or common to "slow" PC?  My note PC has a dual
core CPU (Centrino system) of 1 GHz.

. histogram value if itemcode == 3
(bin=23, start=7.8000002, width=.38695655)

.... long time passing .....


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