st: RE: RE: pattern-fills in stacked bar graph

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

On a quite different level, I note that both stacking and patterning are
widely disapproved as variously ineffective and ugly. Whether this is 7
fills or 4 fills, is this graph really going to work? (See for example
the books by Tufte cited in the manual, or via his website (Google
"Edward Tufte"). 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Martin Weiss

It is difficult to advise you on this, as we do not have your data.
Maybe
give an excerpt. Also, you should say that -tw parea- is user-written by
Sergiy [Radyakin]. 

Natalie Doss

I am trying to do a stacked bar graph with different pattern fills. I
have 4
outcomes and 7 components to each outcome. I am confused about how to
use
twoway
parea to make a bar graph. I believe I have to reorganize my data a fair
amount, but am unsure of what exactly I need. An earlier thread on this
said
that the collapse and contract commands would be most useful, but I'm
pretty
new to stata and am wondering if anyone has more specific ideas.


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