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Re: st: Graph bar question


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Graph bar question
Date   Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:31:29 -0800 (PST)

Thank you to Scott, David and Maarten.

Regards,
Ricardo

Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Graph bar question
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 2:10 PM
> --- Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am graphing the mean concentration of a substance
> over three
> > variables using -graph bar, over()-. I would like to
> have the number
> > of observations (N) for each bar listed on top of the
> bar. Can I do
> > that in Stata?
> 
> If I can't do something in -graph bar- I always move to
> -twoway-. You
> can probably do what you want using -graph bar- as -graph
> bar- allows
> the -text()- option, but below I give you a solution using
> -twoway
> bar-:
> 
> *---------------- begin example --------------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> recode rep78 1/2=3
> collapse (mean) price (count) N=price, by(rep78)
> gen y = price + 150
> twoway bar price rep78,    ///
>       barw(.5) ||          ///
>       scatter y rep78,     ///
>       mlab(N) mlabpos(0)   ///
>       msymbol(i)           ///
>       ylab(0(2500)7500)    ///
>       xlab(3 "medium"      ///
>            4 "good"        ///
>            5 "excelent")   ///
>       ytitle("mean price") /// 
>       legend(off)          ///
>       xscale(range(2.5 5.5))
> *-------------- end example -----------------------
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Maarten L. Buis
> Department of Social Research Methodology
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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> 1081 HV Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> 
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