Thank you to Scott, David and Maarten.
Regards,
Ricardo
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Graph bar question
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 2:10 PM
> --- Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am graphing the mean concentration of a substance
> over three
> > variables using -graph bar, over()-. I would like to
> have the number
> > of observations (N) for each bar listed on top of the
> bar. Can I do
> > that in Stata?
>
> If I can't do something in -graph bar- I always move to
> -twoway-. You
> can probably do what you want using -graph bar- as -graph
> bar- allows
> the -text()- option, but below I give you a solution using
> -twoway
> bar-:
>
> *---------------- begin example --------------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> recode rep78 1/2=3
> collapse (mean) price (count) N=price, by(rep78)
> gen y = price + 150
> twoway bar price rep78, ///
> barw(.5) || ///
> scatter y rep78, ///
> mlab(N) mlabpos(0) ///
> msymbol(i) ///
> ylab(0(2500)7500) ///
> xlab(3 "medium" ///
> 4 "good" ///
> 5 "excelent") ///
> ytitle("mean price") ///
> legend(off) ///
> xscale(range(2.5 5.5))
> *-------------- end example -----------------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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