st: RE: Graphing Frustrations

[Benjamin Hulley <bhulley@ucsd.edu>]

After much trial and error I have resolved my graphing problem.  I'm 
unsure if this is a bug or just my misunderstanding however, the reason 
I could not get Stata to produce a box graph was my data labels.  I had 
labeled the missing values .a "missing" .b "N/A".  Producing a data set 
with out the missing value labels allows me to produce box graphs.  
Additionally labeling non missing values gave me no problems, and I 
could produce box graphs.  Can anyone confirm this bug?

BH


On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:40 PM, Nick Cox wrote:


> Sorry, but I get a box plot for a replication
> of these data. I'm using
>
> . about
>
> Stata/SE 8.1 for Windows
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>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Benjamin Hulley
> > - drinkalc - was in fact a poor example of my problem so I
> > will use -
> > oasm_agg - and I apologize for the mixing up graph and bar
> > charts.  I
> > am most interested in a box plot, though I have the same
> > problem for
> > bar graphs.  Here are the results of trying to produce a
> > box plot of
> > oasm_agg followed by a tabulation of the same variable.
> > Again, using
> > the precursor data sets I was successfully able to produce
> > a box plot
> > of oasm_agg (the only changes to oasm_agg between the two files are
> > labeling its missing values and relabeling the variable itself)
> >
> > . graph box oasm_agg
> > invalid syntax
> > invalid syntax
> > invalid syntax
> > invalid syntax
> > invalid syntax
> > r(198);
> >
> > . tab oasm_agg
> >
> >         OASM |
> >   aggression |
> >        score |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> >            0 |        546       53.48       53.48
> >            1 |         80        7.84       61.31
> < snip >
> >           45 |          1        0.10       99.90
> >           49 |          1        0.10      100.00
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> >        Total |      1,021      100.00
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