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Re: st: Graphing Question
I agree - but this is what business clients like.
jverkuilen wrote:
I do have to ask the graph snob question: Why a pie chart? There are almost always better optons that are perceived more accurately by readers, use less space, etc.
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From: "Data Analytics Corp." <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 7/25/2008 8:59 AM
Subject: st: Graphing Question
Good morning,
I have, what should be, a simple graphing problem. I clustered doctors
into four groups. I created a table showing the proportion of doctors
in each group who use a certain drug with their patients. The
proportions are simply the weighted means of a binary variable which
indicates whether or not the drug is prescribed by that doctor. Now I
want to draw a pie chart showing those proportions. I can easily draw a
pie that displays proportions which are not weighted, but how do I tell
Stata to draw the pie using the weighted means? In short, I want the
table and pie slices to be identical so I can give my client both.
Incidentally, how do I get the pie slice labels to be outside the pie
and have the percentages next to the slice label? It seems that
everything goes inside the pie and we can either get labels or
percentages, but not both.
Thanks,
Walt
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Data Analytics Corp.
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