Speaking Stata: Making it Count
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Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions
Graphing univariate distributions is central to both statistical graphics, in general, and Stata’s graphics, in particular. Now that Stata 8 is out, a review of official and user-written commands is timely. The emphasis here is on going beyond what is obviously and readily available, with pointers to minor and major trickery and various user-written commands. For plotting histogram-like display...
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Abstract. A variety of graphs have been devised for categorical and compositional data, ranging from widely familiar to more unusual displays. Both official Stata commands and user-written programs are available. After a stacking trick for binary responses is explained, bar charts and related displays for cross-tabulations are discussed in detail. Tips and tricks are introduced for plotting cum...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1536-867X,1536-8734
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0700700108