Re: st: RE: help in obtaining a bar graph

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

Thank you very much -- I learned several tricks from this also

Also thanks to Tony Lachenbruch who privately came up with a similar 
plan of attack.

Yes, the labels, at least, are confidential.

Rich

Nick Cox wrote:

> First, one rough solution. Then, a few comments. 
> The following is one line. 
>  
> twoway scatteri  
> `=166/528' 1  `=4569/8781' 2 `=362/528' 4  `=4212/8781' 5, 
> recast(bar) barw(0.5) 
> xla(1 "frog" 2 "toad" 4 "newt" 5 "snake" 
> 1.5 `" " " "stuff" "' 4.5 `" " " "nonsense" "', noticks) 
> base(0) xtitle(category) ytitle(fraction) yla(0(0.1)0.7, ang(h)) 
> Advice often given on Statalist is to give up on -graph bar- when it
> does not offer a solution and to build up your own alternative using
> -twoway bar-. One of the more puzzling aspects of -graph- initially is
> that -graph bar- and -twoway bar- can produce quite similar graphs but
> are nevertheless totally different commands. The trick is not to try to
> understand this, but just to get used to it. 
> In the above I didn't try a direct attack. I use -twoway scatteri- to
> say exactly where I want the bars, strictly data points as yet.
> Macro-like elements like `=166/528' instruct Stata to work out cell
> fractions on the fly. Then I -recast()- to bars. The rest is standard
> -twoway- technique. I have not tried to work out from Rich's colourless
> terminology -- perhaps protecting a client! -- what the best axis labels
> and titles should be but used filler terms. 
> There is enormous scope for tuning all the cosmetic aspects. 
> No doubt this could be automated more. 
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> Richard Goldstein
>
> I have two variables defined as shown in the following table:
>
>             |         event
>       type1 |         N          Y |     Total
> -----------+----------------------+----------
>           N |     4,403        166 |     4,569
>             |     53.35      31.44 |     52.03
> -----------+----------------------+----------
>           Y |     3,850        362 |     4,212
>             |     46.65      68.56 |     47.97
> -----------+----------------------+----------
>       Total |     8,253        528 |     8,781
>             |    100.00     100.00 |    100.00
>
>
> I want a bar graph showing 4 bars as follows:
> 166/528 and 4569/8781
> 362/528 and 4212/8781
>
> I.e., I want the Y and Total columns rather than the N and Y columns.
>
> I have no idea how to get this and any help/ideas would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Note that I can live with having 6 bars (2 for the N column in addition)
>
> if I have to.
>
>
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