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RE: st: WG: Present n in graphs
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: WG: Present n in graphs
Date
Mon, 16 May 2011 10:49:56 +0100
Now your question is about -graph bar-'s -blabel()-.
In some brief experimentation I didn't find a good way to combine stacking and showing the numbers too. You need the colours to distinguish the bars but with the colours the numbers are not very visible.
I guess if I had to do this I would use very pale colours, but This sort of difficulty is one of the reasons I wrote -tabplot- (SSC).
Nick
[email protected]
Kaulisch, Marc
Nick, unfortunately in my concrete examples the best graphs need stacked graphs and then blabel does not help much, or do I miss something again?
sysuse auto
catplot rep78 foreign, perc(foreign) stack asyvars blabel(bar)
Nick Cox
-catplot- does not need such an option. You can reach through and use the -blabel(bar, )- option of -graph bar- or -graph bar-. There are examples in the help, which stresses that "[s]howing numbers as text as well by graphical elements can be helpful".
This works with the dot chart variant too.
Same applies to -statplot-.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Kaulisch, Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anybody know if there is an elegant way to present the number of
> cases represented in a graph automatically?
>
> sysuse auto
> graph hbox mpg, over(foreign)
>
> Now I would like to add the count number of nonmissing cases of each
> foreign category into the graph either to the labels or the boxplots,
> bars etc.
> Of course I could do it manually, but I would like to know a more
> automatic way.
>
> In tabplot (ssc), I find a showval-option that looks similar to what I
> need, but I would like to use such an option in other types of graphs.
> Nick, if I may express a wish: maybe if possible a showval-option
> would be a good addon to your -catplot- and -statplot- programs (both
> ssc) ;-) Or have I missed something?
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