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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The briefest suggestion is "Don't do that" for reasons developed
> (e.g.) in the thread starting
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-05/msg00293.html
>
> and its references.
>
> A less cryptic comment would be that this almost always (1)
> over-reduces the data (2) places most emphasis where it is least
> appropriate (3) is more difficult to interpret than easy alternatives.
>
> There is no difficulty in principle, except that if you think the
> place to start is -graph bar- that is quite wrong. You would need to
> start with -twoway bar- and then add other -twoway- elements. By the
> same token, you would need to calculate everything you need as
> variables before you enter -twoway-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> On 4 March 2014 15:09, Chris Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to add SEM error bars to a bar chart? I have the SEM
>> calculated for each bar in the data, but drawing it on top of the bar
>> seems not so straightforward in Stata.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
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