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Re: st: Catplot problem


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Catplot problem
Date   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:17:18 +0000

This works for me

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. which catplot, all

d:/njc/ado/stbplus\c\catplot.ado
*! 2.0.2 NJC 10 December 2010

. gen himpg = mpg > 20

. catplot himpg foreign, by(rep78)

So, as suggested,

catplot var1 var2, by(var3)

is legal.

Nick
[email protected]


On 21 January 2014 14:00, Neophytos Stylianou
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Nick for the quick answer
>
> This one works
> catplot category sex agegroup
>
> but not this one
> catplot category sex, by(agegroup)
>
> The result for the second one is as:
> catplot category, by(agegroups)
>
> So it is like it misses the sex variable there
>
> Also in the first one
> catplot  category sex agegroups
> it will give the results as in a histrogram from and not separate small graphs on the same plot region
>
> It does in a way solve my problem though so help you very much
>
> Neo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 21 January 2014 13:40
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Catplot problem
>
> The limitation here is not that of -catplot- (SSC) but of the -graph- commands it calls, which allow only one variable in a -by()- option.
>
> The help for -catplot- gives examples relevant to your needs.
>
> catplot category sex agegroup
>
> is a legal call, as is
>
> catplot category sex, by(agegroup)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 21 January 2014 13:34, Neophytos Stylianou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalist users,
>>
>> I have a problem with plotting a graph.
>>
>> I am using Stata 12.
>>
>> I have a categorical string variable which I want to graph as a bar chart based on each category percentage (below is the tablulation of the variable)
>>                      CATEGORY                           Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>       01 Accidental: recreation        |     25,096       35.72       35.72
>>     02 Accidental: work related     |      8,602       12.24       47.96
>> 03 Accidental: not work related |     15,459       22.00       69.97
>>      04 Accidental: unspecified      |     14,815       21.09       91.05
>>                      05 Assault                      |      1,244        1.77       92.82
>>               06 Self inflicted                   |      1,616        2.30       95.12
>>                     07 Suicidal                       |        195        0.28       95.40
>>                 08 NAI of child                   |        213        0.30       95.70
>>                        09 Arson                       |        119        0.17       95.87
>>                        98 other                        |      1,486        2.12       97.99
>>                      99 unknown                  |      1,413        2.01      100.00
>> --------------------------------+-----------------------------------
>>                                                      Total |     70,258      100.00
>>
>> Unfortunately Stata won't do it with its graphics options so I used -catplot- which is a user written program downloaded from SSC.
>>
>> I use the following command and it works perfectly
>>
>> catplot category, percent
>>
>> What I want is to have it BY 2 other variables (sex, agegroup)
>>
>> So I am trying to use the command:
>>
>> catplot category, percent by(sex agegroup )
>>
>> But it says too many variables specified r(103).
>>
>> It looks like catplot is able to plot a variable restricted to only one by variable.
>>
>> Is there another way of plotting the graph I want?
>>
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