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RE: st: Catplot problem


From   Neophytos Stylianou <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Catplot problem
Date   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:00:17 +0000

Thanks Nick for the quick answer

This one works 
catplot category sex agegroup

but not this one
catplot category sex, by(agegroup)

The result for the second one is as:
catplot category, by(agegroups)

So it is like it misses the sex variable there

Also in the first one 
catplot  category sex agegroups 
it will give the results as in a histrogram from and not separate small graphs on the same plot region

It does in a way solve my problem though so help you very much

Neo

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 21 January 2014 13:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Catplot problem

The limitation here is not that of -catplot- (SSC) but of the -graph- commands it calls, which allow only one variable in a -by()- option.

The help for -catplot- gives examples relevant to your needs.

catplot category sex agegroup

is a legal call, as is

catplot category sex, by(agegroup)

Nick
[email protected]


On 21 January 2014 13:34, Neophytos Stylianou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist users,
>
> I have a problem with plotting a graph.
>
> I am using Stata 12.
>
> I have a categorical string variable which I want to graph as a bar chart based on each category percentage (below is the tablulation of the variable)
>                      CATEGORY                           Freq.     Percent        Cum.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>       01 Accidental: recreation        |     25,096       35.72       35.72
>     02 Accidental: work related     |      8,602       12.24       47.96
> 03 Accidental: not work related |     15,459       22.00       69.97
>      04 Accidental: unspecified      |     14,815       21.09       91.05
>                      05 Assault                      |      1,244        1.77       92.82
>               06 Self inflicted                   |      1,616        2.30       95.12
>                     07 Suicidal                       |        195        0.28       95.40
>                 08 NAI of child                   |        213        0.30       95.70
>                        09 Arson                       |        119        0.17       95.87
>                        98 other                        |      1,486        2.12       97.99
>                      99 unknown                  |      1,413        2.01      100.00
> --------------------------------+-----------------------------------
>                                                      Total |     70,258      100.00
>
> Unfortunately Stata won't do it with its graphics options so I used -catplot- which is a user written program downloaded from SSC.
>
> I use the following command and it works perfectly
>
> catplot category, percent
>
> What I want is to have it BY 2 other variables (sex, agegroup)
>
> So I am trying to use the command:
>
> catplot category, percent by(sex agegroup )
>
> But it says too many variables specified r(103).
>
> It looks like catplot is able to plot a variable restricted to only one by variable.
>
> Is there another way of plotting the graph I want?
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Neo
>
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