st: Re: Bar plots with standard errors

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

-help standard error bar -

points you directly to serrbar as well as the ucla web site.  I don't think
that your effort qualifies as looking thoroughly, so I guess we can blame
you ;)

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sascha Robert" <sascha.robert@iew.unizh.ch>
To: "STATA List" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:24 AM
Subject: st: Bar plots with standard errors



> Hi again
>
> This time I really can't blame me for not having looked thoroughly for a
> solution, I consulted both STATA help (graph bar) and "A Visual Guide to
> Stata Graphics" by M. Mitchell...
>
> Is there a way to display standard errors in bar plots (e.g. with
> something like 'twoway rcap hi low y_var')?
> Here's a lousy sketch of what I mean:
>
>    -  <-- (mean + se)
>    |
> ---|---   <-- (mean)
> |  |  |
> |  -  |   <-- (mean - se)
> |     |
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sascha
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