How about something like this:
sysuse auto
graph bar (count) mpg, over(rep) over(fore)
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Sherman
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: bar graph of multiple variables
>
> Dear statalist,
>
> Here is what must be a simple graphing problem; I confess that I am
> still mostly baffled by the Stata 8 graphics syntax.
>
> I have seven variables, c1-c7, that take values 1, 2, or 3. I want a
> graph of the frequencies of these variables that looks something like
> this:
>
>
> freq |
> |
> |
> | *
> | * *
> | * *
> | * * *
> | * * * * * *
> | * * * * * * * * *
> |________________________________________ (... etc.)
> 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 (... etc.)
>
> c1 c2 c3 (... etc.)
>
>
> I have been slogging away with -graph bar- and have gotten no farther
> than the inelegant and unsatisfying method of generating three
> variables from each variable (measuring the count of each category) and
> using
>
> graph bar (count) all-of-these-variables
>
> or
>
>
> graph bar (count) three-at-a-time
> and then
>
> graph combine these-seven-graphs
>
> But surely there is a better way. Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Sherman
> Department of Political Science, Leiden University
> Leiden, Netherlands
> http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman/
>
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