Xiaoqu Luo
> I want to creat stacked bar chart where each bar stands for
> the mean of a variable. I tried using "graph v1 v2 v3, bar
> means by (v4) stack" to produce this but STATA said that it
> was invalid. It looks like "stack" cannot be used with
> means (i.e. "stack" option can only have the bar to
> represent counts). Do you have any idea to do stacked bar
> chart on mean?
I guess that -graph, bar- was written with
the notion that people might want to stack
totals, but not means.
One work-around would be as follows:
1. Create variables which are means
and give them the same variable labels as
the originals:
foreach v of var v1 v2 v3 {
bysort v4 : egen mean`v' = mean(`v')
_crcslbl mean`v' `v'
}
2. Select just one observation from each
group:
egen tag = tag(v4)
3. Draw the graph
graph meanv1 meanv2 mean3 if tag, bar stack
Nick
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