I agree. You need to -reshape- to make headway.
gen id = _n
reshape long laser, i(id) j(which)
catplot bar which laser
Nick
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P.S. The zero responses for 5 are not visible. The easiest way I know to
get those is to redo the whole thing with -twoway bar-.
b. water
nick (cox),
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
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