Not so on superimposition. If you use -twoway histogram- or -histogram, addplot()- you can certainly superimpose other graphs.
As for resolution, I have three comments.
First, people respond to the questions you ask and can have no idea that your real problem is something different unless you tell them. Your example gave 6 groups and several graph types should work fairly well for that case.
Second, if you want fewer graphs you need to group.
Third, my example with -row(1)- was for an example with 5 groups: with many more groups that would be not be a good idea.
All that said, I'm left in some doubt on what you really want. It seems that you asked how to do a certain graph but now decide that it doesn't look good. There is no simple way to compare 56 subsets.
Nick
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moleps
The histogram command ala Nick Cox is closest to what I want to convey, However since there are 56 years along the x-axis it doesnt look very nice. I could graph by decades, but all my other graphs are on individual years. Also I´m not able to superimpose other plots on the same graph.
On 13. jan. 2010, at 18.33, Nick Cox wrote:
> There are several other possibilities too. For example, -histogram- itself is much more flexible than is widely known:
>
> . sysuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . histogram mpg, by(rep78, compact row(1)) yla(, ang(h)) width(2) xsc(r(0 11)) freq horizontal
>
> Also, check out -tabplot- from SSC.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Nick Winter
> ===========
>
> Interestingly, the table you include makes a nice "plot" itself,
> showing, more or less, the distribution by decade.
>
> Continuing along that line, and rather differently from what you are
> asking for, violin plots are another way to show distributions over time
> (or against anything). My -vioplot- from SSC will do them.
>
> Maarten Buis
> ============
>
> Sounds like a case for Nick Cox's -stripplot-, which you can download from SSC by typing in Stata: -ssc install stripplot-.
> The help-file contains many examples.
>
> Moleps Islon
> ============
>
> I´m trying to create a graph with age on the y axis and time on the x axis (year). So far so good, the problem is that I´d like each year to be represented with the distribution of age on the y axis. I was thinking color coding the number of people within each 10-year category on the y axis, and having the colors with the associated numbers in the legend. preferably all within a twoway graph so that I could also superimpose the median in the end.
>>
>> egen agecut=cut(age),at(0(10)100)
>>
>>
>> gives me this
>>
>> tab agecut Ye
>>
>> | Year
>> agecut | 1953-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 | Total
>> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
>> 0 | 23 19 16 7 6 3 | 74
>> 10 | 32 17 7 11 2 6 | 75
>> 20 | 43 39 38 17 9 4 | 150
>> 30 | 110 59 77 66 21 21 | 354
>> 40 | 213 129 153 177 78 54 | 804
>> 50 | 444 301 259 273 193 144 | 1,614
>> 60 | 342 330 427 375 211 215 | 1,900
>> 70 | 72 104 193 257 149 139 | 914
>> 80 | 2 13 12 26 33 40 | 126
>> 90 | 0 1 0 1 0 1 | 3
>> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
>> Total | 1,281 1,012 1,182 1,210 702 627 | 6,014
>>
>> I cannot get my head around to figuring out how to maintain age on the y-axis and have the frequencies color coded instead of having the frequencies on the y-axis and the age categories in the legend. Any ideas?
>
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