Re: st: Presenting categorical data

[Kirimi Sindi <sindijul@msu.edu>]

Just wondering if anyone can send to me the second article mentioned by 
Maarten.

Speaking Stata: Spineplots and their kin. The Stata Journal 8(1): 105--121.

Kirimi

Maarten buis wrote:
> --- On Wed, 1/4/09, Tim wrote:
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> > 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?
> >     
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> That sounds sensible
>  
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> > 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
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> 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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