Fred Wolfe replied to Michael Mitchell's request for suggestions
on a second edition of "A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics" with
several thoughts from his experience.
I have extracted two comments here, which should be of
interest beyond the book and before any second edition appears:
> For bar and dot graphs, orientation is almost exclusively to over()
> and by(). But I often have to make such graphs under circumstances
> where over groups are not mutually exclusive. For example, instead of
> having an over group for drugs that patients might take, I have
> situations where patients take more than one drug, making the over
> group option useless to me. So I would very much like to see an
> expanded section on handling overlapping groups - or non-grouped
> data. Too much group stuff for me, but perhaps not for others.
I am not clear what the difficulty here is at all. Please give
a specific example or more detail.
> Converting proportions to percentages is a frequent task. Maybe
> adding some lines of code to do simple tasks like this would be
> helpful.
Sorry, but what's the complication to be explained here?
Multiplication by 100?
Nick
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