nick (cox),
to be sure 'c'est la vie' didn't mean giving up. intuitively i thought so too that the problem can't be that difficult having used your catplot in the past. at the moment though i am not making any headway. i have a feeling that i need to manipulate the data into something else first before applying the appropriate [G]raph command to produce the graph that i wanted (like so below) but what that something else first is i am stumped (or that the data set-up need to re-organized in a different):
^
no. of +
returns 80+ xx
+ xx xx cc xx cc
60+ xx cc xx cc xx cc
+ xx cc xx xx cc xx cc
+ xx cc xx cc xx cc xx cc
+ xx cc xx cc xx cc xx cc
+ xx cc xx cc xx cc xx cc
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>
1 2 3 4 5
xx = laser1
cc = laser2
xx and cc are my 'cartoon-ish' substitute for a bar histogram for laser 1 and 2 respectively.
there is also a category of responds i.e. equal to 5 which none of the subjects returns in evaluating laser1 or laser2 hence will be zero on the histogram as seen above. i am not sure how much of the above illustration describes what i wanted better than words can but i hope it does. if further description in words is required please do let me know.
as requested, the contigency table is as follows:
.tab laser1 laser2
laser2
laser1 1 2 3 4 Total
1 70 65 22 8 165
2 64 29 13 0 106
3 20 8 2 0 30
4 11 3 1 0 15
Total 165 105 38 8 316
once again thank you for your (or anyone else's) input.
regards,
bw
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:20:54 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: graph bar and/or catplot
>
> The original question talked about a bar graph from two categorical
> variables.
>
> The problem can't be too difficult! Odds are that it yields to an
> existing command. If it doesn't we'll write one.
>
> Instead of "c'est la vie", how about a restatement of the problem?
>
> Show us
>
> 1. The contingency table -tab laser1 laser2-.
>
> 2. A word description of what you want.
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> b. water wrote:
>
>> i still could not create the graphs that i wanted to create. perhaps it is a case of c'est la vie. i'll try a little bit more with gr bar and catplot. if i manage to create the graphs that i wanted, i'll post the commands to the list.
>
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