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Re: st: Graphing Question
Hopefully you are providing them with more glitz (to the extent they
demand it) and fewer glitches!
-- Mike
On Jul 26, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
Ditto on the 3D - but yet they love those also. The more the
glitch, the better.
"Data Analytics Corp. Wrote:"@hsphsun2.harvard.edu wrote:
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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Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.
Data Analytics Corp.
44 Hamilton Lane
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
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(F) 609-936-3733
[email protected]
www.dataanalyticscorp.com
-- Mike
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