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Re: st: RE: Combining histograms
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Combining histograms
Date
Mon, 23 May 2011 11:13:34 -0400
Michael Hecker <[email protected]>:
See also -bihist- and -byhist- on SSC.
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/b/byhist.html
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Michael Hecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Deal Nick,
> thank you very much. This looks like a very good starting point.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> Am 20.05.2011 20:50, schrieb Nick Cox:
>>
>> "combine", "merge" both admit of different interpretations.
>>
>> You can use -graph combine-. You don't say what you typed or in what sense
>> you "didn't manage to get the result".
>>
>> Otherwise I'll guess that you want to superimpose histograms.
>>
>> You can do that in various ways. Often it's hard work to stop bars of one
>> variable occluding bars of the other variable.
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>>
>> twoway histogram trunk, width(2) start(0) bfcolor(none) blcolor(blue) freq
>> || histogram mpg, width(2) start(0) bfcolor(none) blcolor(red) barw(1.7)
>> freq legend(order(1 "`: var label trunk'" 2 "`: var label mpg'"))
>>
>> This is a 19th century way of comparing distributions. -qqplot- gives you
>> a 20th century method with no binning choices or artefacts.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Michael Hecker
>>
>> I create two histograms using:
>>
>> hist X, saving(normal, replace)
>> hist Y, saving(changed, replace)
>>
>> Is it possible two merge both gph-files into a single graph?
>> I didn't manage to get the result with "graph combine".
>> I want to have both histograms in a single chart to compare the
>> distributions.
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