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Re: st: Labelling axes as percentages
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Labelling axes as percentages
Date
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:52:59 +0100
I have suggested previously to StataCorp that percent[age]
presentation is a matter for -format-, so that a percent format, say
%2.1p %2.0p
would map (say) 0.234 or 0.236
to show
23.4% 23%
or
23.6% 24%
But no success yet; we have no such -format- choice.
However, -mylabels- (SSC) has a -suffix()- option but the downside is
that in practice you need to do as much typing as with the direct
solution. The help file has an example showing percents, so I won't
repeat it here.
-mylabels- might be useful in do-files or programs for automating
production of many such graphs, but I do use it interactively.
Nick
[email protected]
On 17 April 2013 10:36, Ronan Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems to me that I could save a certain amount of time if I could replace lines like
>
> title("Figure 1" "Prevalence of DSM-IV Criterion C symptoms") ///
> ylabel(0 "0%" 20 "20%" 40 "40%" 60 "60%")
>
> with
>
> title("Figure 1" "Prevalence of DSM-IV Criterion C symptoms") ///
> ylabel(0 (20) 60, aspercent)
>
> The wishful-thinking Stata option -aspercent- would label the axes interpreting values as percentages.
>
> Does anyone know a neat way of doing this?
>
> (I am already familiar with Nick's excellent SJ article on plotting on transformed scales (http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr0032).
>
>
> Ronán Conroy
> [email protected]
> Associate Professor
> Division of Population Health Sciences
> Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
> Beaux Lane House
> Dublin 2
>
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