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st: RE: bar graph of multiple variables


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: bar graph of multiple variables
Date   Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:41:33 -0600

How about something like this:

sysuse auto

graph bar (count) mpg, over(rep) over(fore)


Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Sherman
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: bar graph of multiple variables
> 
> Dear statalist,
> 
> Here is what must be a simple graphing problem; I confess that I am
> still mostly baffled by the Stata 8 graphics syntax.
> 
> I have seven variables, c1-c7, that take values 1, 2, or 3.  I want a
> graph of the frequencies of these variables that looks something like
> this:
> 
> 
> freq |
>       |
>       |
>       |  *
>       |  *                        *
>       |  *                        *
>       |  *              *         *
>       |  *  *        *  *         *  *
>       |  *  *  *     *  *  *      *  *  *
>       |________________________________________  (... etc.)
>          1  2  3     1  2  3      1  2  3        (... etc.)
> 
>             c1          c2           c3          (... etc.)
> 
> 
> I have been slogging away with -graph bar- and have gotten no farther
> than the inelegant and unsatisfying method of generating three
> variables from each variable (measuring the count of each category) and
> using
> 
>    graph bar (count) all-of-these-variables
> 
> or
> 
> 
>    graph bar (count) three-at-a-time
> and then
> 
>    graph combine these-seven-graphs
> 
> But surely there is a better way.  Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Sherman
> Department of Political Science, Leiden University
> Leiden, Netherlands
> http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman/
> 
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