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Re: st: STATA graph question: Combining Histograms
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: STATA graph question: Combining Histograms
Date
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:39:08 +0100
On second reading: I think by "each question" you mean "every question".
I doubt that you are going to make much progress with -histogram- or
-twoway histogram-, assuming that is what you tried. (Again, you show
no code, contrary to Statalist advice.)
Look at -catplot- (SSC) or -contract- your data to frequencies and use
-graph bar- or -graph hbar-.
Nick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can let -rep78- of the auto data serve as a Likert scale. (The term
> Likert honours Rensis Likert.)
>
> Without code examples of what you tried what you want remains a bit
> vague. Do you want axis scales? labels on the bars? or what?
>
> Is this what you want?
>
> . sysuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . histogram rep78, freq
>
> . tab rep78
>
> Repair |
> Record 1978 | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> 1 | 2 2.90 2.90
> 2 | 8 11.59 14.49
> 3 | 30 43.48 57.97
> 4 | 18 26.09 84.06
> 5 | 11 15.94 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 69 100.00
>
> . histogram rep78, freq discrete barw(0.8) yaxis(1 2) yla(6.9 "10"
> 13.8 "20" 20.7 "30" 27.6 "40" , axis(2)) ytitle("Percent", axis(2))
>
> Here I did it by mental arithmetic after noting that 69 is 100% and 6.9 is 10%.
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Marlis Gonzalez Fernandez
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to combine frequency histograms for several questions into one graph. Each variable has the answers to questions in a likert scale (always, frequently, infrequently, never, don't know). I want to plot the frequency and percent for each question side by side. Have not found a good way to do this.
>
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