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st: -statplot- available from SSC
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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st: -statplot- available from SSC
Date
Tue, 8 Mar 2011 03:00:30 +0000
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Thanks to Kit Baum, a new program -statplot- by Nick Cox and myself is now available from SSC. Stata 8.2 is required. Use -ssc- to install if interested.
This program arose out of a thread on Statalist last month. We answered about the same time and got to pooling ideas via email. What emerged is a program which is a wrapper for -graph hbar|bar|dot- that is less general than that program. So what's the point?
The point is that, through a different organization of the data, -statplot- for the same task is less inclined than -graph hbar|bar|dot- to produce plots with many different colors or to use legends which tend to grab valuable real estate. In contrast, -statplot- adheres to a plain minimalist-Bauhaus-Shaker-Quaker-Ikea-Tufte style[1] using axis labeling to the maximum extent possible.
Displays using -graph hbar- by default, but -bar- and -dot- are easily available as well.
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
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[1] It's worth noting that this clever phrasing is all Nick Cox -- I had never even heard of Bauhaus!
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