RE: st: label graphs

[Philip Ryan <philip.ryan@adelaide.edu.au>]

see -help graph twoway bar-

Phil




At 09:17 AM 22/12/2006 +1100, you wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Maybe my initial question is better illustrated as follows:
>
> Column 1   Column 2
> 1               4
> 3               10
> 4               21
> 5               4
> 6               3
>
> So, I want to graph the frequency which is represented by Column 2, but the
> x-axis to be expressed by figures in column 1.
>
> Currently, when I put in .tw hist column 2, by(column 1)it gives me 5
> individual graphs. What I would like to get is one single graph, column 1 as
> the x-axis label with the 'frequency' to be expressed by figures in column
> 2. Do-able?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Lucy
>
> Lucy Shum
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas
> Sent: 11 December 2006 17:03
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: label graphs
>
> Lucy Shum wrote:
>
> > Hi all, what command is required in order to include individual figures on
> > each of the column in a histogram/ bar graph?
>
> Try -blabel(bar)- or -blabel(total)-.
>
> > Further, when I generate twoway histgrams, how should I go about labeling
> > each of the graphs? Subtitle(" ... ") subtitle(" ... ") ??
>
> I'm not clear about this, but if you mean the _axes_ of the -twoway hist-
> graph, they will automatically be labelled if the variables are already.
> Subtitling any graph using -subtitle()- means a fitting a legend that
> appears immediately below the main -title()- of the graph, which appears
> above the graphic. Is this what you mean?
>
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