My apologies: I am getting time the wrong way
round and forgetting that the Stata community
cannot be expected to understand a term not
yet introduced to it (unless you are a student of mine).
Here is an extract from something not yet
published in the Stata Journal:
giraffe graphics, in which readers are presumed able
and willing to move their heads over a range of angles
to scrutinise the plot presented
A Google search reveals many other more literal
uses. In short, the "giraffe" is in my sense the supposed
reader of the graphs, _not_ part of the graphic.
However, people with access to http://www.jstor.org or
otherwise able to look at
Errors of routine analysis
Student
Biometrika 19 (1/2) (July 1927), pp. 151-164.
should check out the cartoons of
kangaroos and a platypus used to make a
very serious statistical point on p.160.
This "Student" was, as everyone knows, really
the brewer W.S. Gosset who worked for Guinness
in Dublin, where a sense of humour and a love
of statistics are both much in evidence today.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Wallace, John
> Sent: 19 May 2004 23:28
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: st: RE: RE: stata graphs, x-axis formatting
>
>
> Well, I'm intrigued...what's the derivation of "giraffe graphics"?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: stata graphs, x-axis formatting
>
> ....
> _or_ consider what is often a much better solution
> to avoid giraffe graphics:
>
> graph hbar ... , over(whatever)
>
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