Re: st: Bar graph ordered by values of yvar

[David Radwin <radwin@berkeley.edu>]

Friedrich,

Thank you for the suggestion. This graph is adequate, but I would 
like greater control over the spacing between bars as is typically 
done using the bargap or gap options. The reason would be to 
emphasize the comparison between college grads and non-college grads.

Is there a way to make the gaps between bars 2 and 3 and between bars 
4 and 5 larger than the gaps between bars 1 and 2, bars 3 and 4, and 
bars 5 and 6?

David

At 7:09 PM -0400 3/13/08, Friedrich Huebler wrote:

> David,
>
> Here is one solution.
>
> . sysuse nlsw88, clear
> . foreach var of varlist hours wage tenure {
>     sum `var' if collgrad == 0
>     gen ncg`var' = r(mean)
>     sum `var' if collgrad == 1
>     gen cg`var' = r(mean)
>   }
> . keep in 1
> . graph hbar ncghours - cgtenure, ascategory
>
> Friedrich
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, David Radwin <radwin@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >  Dear Stata-listers,
> >
> >   I have a question analogous to one I asked last year that was
> >   graciously answered by Nick Cox
> >   (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-08/msg00934.html).
> >
> >   Rather than pose the question outright, I will illustrate with a
> >   example comparing college graduates with non-college graduates:
> >
> >   . sysuse nlsw88, clear
> >   . graph hbar (mean) hours wage tenure, over(collgrad) showyvars
> >
> >   give you a graph with the bars in the order, from top to bottom, of:
> >
> >   1. mean hours for non-college grads
> >   2. mean wage for non-college grads
> >   3. mean tenure for non-college grads
> >   4. mean hours for college grads
> >   5. mean wage for college grads
> >   6. mean tenure for college grads
> >
> >   But what I actually want is
> >
> >   1. mean hours for non-college grads
> >   2. mean hours for college grads
> >   3. mean wage for non-college grads
> >   4. mean wage for college grads
> >   5. mean tenure for non-college grads
> >   6. mean tenure for college grads
> >
> >   Is there a option, user-written program, or set of commands that
> >   would produce this graph?
> >
> >   David
> >   --
> >   David Radwin, Principal Analyst // radwin@berkeley.edu
> >   Office of Student Research, University of California, Berkeley
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