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Re: st: Histogram, with customize intervals
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Syed Basher <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Histogram, with customize intervals
Date
Mon, 9 May 2011 02:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you Nick for very helpful advice.
-- Syed
----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, May 9, 2011 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: st: Histogram, with customize intervals
>
> -hist3- is from SSC and is for Stata version 6. Remember: you are
> asked to explain _where_ user-written programs you refer to come from.
> Evidently the author is not maintaining it; otherwise it would have
> been ported to Stata 8 long since.
>
> If you have just two intervals, you might as well use -graph bar-.
>
> Alternatively, see
>
> SJ-4-1 gr0003 . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
> Q1/04 SJ 4(1):66--88 (no commands)
> a review of official and user-written commands for
> graphing univariate distributions; includes tricks
> beyond what is obviously and readily available
>
> for discussion of unequal bin widths in histograms.
>
> (English idioms vary across the world, but while "some code" sounds
> very natural to me to refer to one or more programs, "a code" suggests
> to me only a cipher.)
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Syed Basher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am using Stata 11.2. I want to draw a histogram for a continuous variable
> with the following intervals (0-250, 250-1000). I noticed that this is not
> straightforward in Stata. I found a user written code, "hist3", which
> allows me to get what I want:
>>
>> hist3 price, v(250)
>>
>> However, with hist3, the height of the bar reflects density (and area
> reflects frequency of the intervals). But I would like to express the height of
> the bar in percent (rather than density). Is there a way to do this in Stata?
> Thank you.
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