I confirm problems with putting one -histogram- on top of another.
However, I can get -twoway histogram- to play:
sysuse auto
twoway histogram mpg if !foreign, ///
start(10) width(2) freq bfcolor(none) blcolor(pink) ///
|| histogram mpg if foreign, freq start(10) width(2) barw(1.8) ///
bfcolor(none) blcolor(blue) ///
legend(order(1 "Domestic" 2 "Foreign") pos(2) ring(0) col(1))
A small tip inside that example is tweaking the -barwidth()- of one
display so that one set of bars just fits inside another. Like it or
loathe it, it's a possibility.
The answer to Murali's question about colours is: Look at the -help- to
find out about the options!
That said, these superimposed histograms are Statistics 100 graphics.
It's difficult to avoid a small mess often and a large mess even more
often. Artefacts of bin width and origin abound unchecked even if you
think about them.
Beyond that, what happens when you have not just two groups but several?
With no apologies for all the plugs, consider some other ways of
comparing two distributions:
Official:
-qqplot- (although this is limited to two groups also)
-dotplot-
-kdensity- (cf. David Airey's suggestion)
User-written:
-distplot- (SJ)
-qplot- (SJ)
-stripplot, stack- (SSC)
-beamplot- (SSC)
... and others.
Nick
[email protected]
Murali Kuchibhotla
I am trying to plot 2 histograms on the same graph using the
addplot
option as follows:
hist math_grade if MATH_cat==2 & course=="econ_10", addplot(hist
math_grade if MATH_cat==2 & course=="psych_101") freq addl
However, when I run this I get the same graph as when I run:
hist math_grade if MATH_cat==2 & course=="econ_10",freq addl
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Also, is there a way
to
represent the bars of the 2 histograms in different colors? Thanks.
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