>I agree - but this is what business clients like.
Nod. I always wonder about that. The wretched 3D effect is the worst.
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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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