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Re: AW: st: help with a histogram by year
On 10 Márta 2009, at 15:54, Martin Weiss wrote:
I agree with your sentiment, but usually users are bewildered by the
fact
that the -note- has to be specified inside the parantheses for -by-
(see -
help by_option, marker(remarks6)-), not by the empty string to make
it go
away. In fact, the difference btw -by(foreign, note(""))- and -
by(foreign,
note(off))- seems minor to me...
It goes against Stata philosophy, I think, that Stata does something
that you didn't ask it for. I think that it is up to the user to
decide how to incorporate the information into the graph. I would
normally title a graph with this information - something like
"Wellbeing scores in men and women" - to draw attention to the -by-
variable in the title.
In general, I would like each element of a chart to be capable of
being turned off using an (off) option. -legend- can be turned off,
but not so -note-. This is inconsistent and Stata is generally a
stickler for consistency.
Ronan Conroy
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