--- On Wed, 1/4/09, Tim wrote:
> I have a small dataset (n=51 with many missing values).
> There are about 17 variables, all categorical with 6 to 10
> categories in each (although some categories can be sensibly
> combined). I also have a list of 24 comparisons that the
> researcher would like to look at.
>
> It seems to me the only viable approach is to simply
> display the data in a way that highlights interesting
> features. True?
That sounds sensible
> So I would like to know what commands I should be
> investigating, whether built-in or user-written.
Nick Cox has writen useful atricles and programs on this
in the Stata Journal (the 2004 article is available for
free):
Nicholas J. Cox (2004), Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical
and compositional data. The Stata Journal 4(2): 190--215.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=gr0004
Nicholas J. Cox (2008) Speaking Stata: Spineplots and their
kin. The Stata Journal 8(1): 105--121.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=gr0031
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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