I appreciate your efforts. However I did stumble across the solution to my colorcoding problem using -plotmatrix- by Adrian Mander, available using ssc install plotmatrix.
tab agecut Year,matcell(r) matcol(m) matrow(i)
plotmatrix,m(r)
Any easy way to set the col and rownames according to the vectors m & i above?
I agree that the histogram is more elegant when divided into decades, but for each and every year I believe the color coded graph looks better superimposed with the median.
Regards,
/M
On 13. jan. 2010, at 19.52, Nick Cox wrote:
> Not so on superimposition. If you use -twoway histogram- or -histogram, addplot()- you can certainly superimpose other graphs.
>
> As for resolution, I have three comments.
>
> First, people respond to the questions you ask and can have no idea that your real problem is something different unless you tell them. Your example gave 6 groups and several graph types should work fairly well for that case.
>
> Second, if you want fewer graphs you need to group.
>
> Third, my example with -row(1)- was for an example with 5 groups: with many more groups that would be not be a good idea.
>
> All that said, I'm left in some doubt on what you really want. It seems that you asked how to do a certain graph but now decide that it doesn't look good. There is no simple way to compare 56 subsets.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> moleps
>
> The histogram command ala Nick Cox is closest to what I want to convey, However since there are 56 years along the x-axis it doesnt look very nice. I could graph by decades, but all my other graphs are on individual years. Also I´m not able to superimpose other plots on the same graph.
>
> On 13. jan. 2010, at 18.33, Nick Cox wrote:
>
>> There are several other possibilities too. For example, -histogram- itself is much more flexible than is widely known:
>>
>> . sysuse auto
>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>
>> . histogram mpg, by(rep78, compact row(1)) yla(, ang(h)) width(2) xsc(r(0 11)) freq horizontal
>>
>> Also, check out -tabplot- from SSC.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Nick Winter
>> ===========
>>
>> Interestingly, the table you include makes a nice "plot" itself,
>> showing, more or less, the distribution by decade.
>>
>> Continuing along that line, and rather differently from what you are
>> asking for, violin plots are another way to show distributions over time
>> (or against anything). My -vioplot- from SSC will do them.
>>
>> Maarten Buis
>> ============
>>
>> Sounds like a case for Nick Cox's -stripplot-, which you can download from SSC by typing in Stata: -ssc install stripplot-.
>> The help-file contains many examples.
>>
>> Moleps Islon
>> ============
>>
>> I´m trying to create a graph with age on the y axis and time on the x axis (year). So far so good, the problem is that I´d like each year to be represented with the distribution of age on the y axis. I was thinking color coding the number of people within each 10-year category on the y axis, and having the colors with the associated numbers in the legend. preferably all within a twoway graph so that I could also superimpose the median in the end.
>>>
>>> egen agecut=cut(age),at(0(10)100)
>>>
>>>
>>> gives me this
>>>
>>> tab agecut Ye
>>>
>>> | Year
>>> agecut | 1953-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 | Total
>>> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
>>> 0 | 23 19 16 7 6 3 | 74
>>> 10 | 32 17 7 11 2 6 | 75
>>> 20 | 43 39 38 17 9 4 | 150
>>> 30 | 110 59 77 66 21 21 | 354
>>> 40 | 213 129 153 177 78 54 | 804
>>> 50 | 444 301 259 273 193 144 | 1,614
>>> 60 | 342 330 427 375 211 215 | 1,900
>>> 70 | 72 104 193 257 149 139 | 914
>>> 80 | 2 13 12 26 33 40 | 126
>>> 90 | 0 1 0 1 0 1 | 3
>>> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
>>> Total | 1,281 1,012 1,182 1,210 702 627 | 6,014
>>>
>>> I cannot get my head around to figuring out how to maintain age on the y-axis and have the frequencies color coded instead of having the frequencies on the y-axis and the age categories in the legend. Any ideas?
>>
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