Jeph wrote - in a comment to several suggestions:
More like this:
sysuse auto
twoway ///
(histogram mpg if foreign, bin(10) gap(5) fc(gray) lc(black)) ///
(histogram mpg if !foreign, bin(10) gap(15) fc(white) lc(black)) ///
legend(off)
It works better when there are more bins, ie, more obs - I have 100k
obs so I have lots of thin bars. The effect is quite good, though
I dislike that, as here, one distribution has thinner bars than the
other.
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Fascinating game. How about this?
twoway ///
(histogram mpg if !foreign, start(10) width(2) fc(white) lc(black)) ///
(histogram mpg if foreign, gap(50) fc(gray) lc(black) start(10)
width(2)) ///
, legend(off) plotregion(margin(b=0))
Svend
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