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Re: st: 3D bar plot
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: 3D bar plot
Date
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:51:46 +0000
In the original, the reference to "freq" is presumably a cryptic allusion to
freq from http://www.epiconcept.fr
freq . / Program by Gilles DESVE . / Display nb of missing values and %
after each table. / Distribution-Date: 20090222
Nick
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Ning Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What is the command for drawing a 3D bar plot? by 3D bar plot it is meant -
>>
>> Suppose our data set is {(x,y,z)}={(8.3, 2.3, 2), (9.2, 1.8, 4), (7.1, 0.9, 5)}
>> For each point in the (x,y) plate, a vertical bar with height that equals the corresponding z value is drawn. ie., in the position (x,y)=(8.3,2.3), a vertical bar of length 2 is presented, ....
>>
>> When x and y represent, respectively, within-person mean and within-person standard deviation, and z the frequency of the corresponding pattern, this plot should give a graphic summary of the panel data.
>
> I would look at Nick Cox's -tabplot- (see: -ssc descr tabplot-). It is
> not 3D, but I think it does what you want to do. Here is an example:
>
> *---------- begin example ---------------
> webuse union, clear
> xtset idcode year
> bys id: egen m = mean(union)
> bys id : egen sd = sd(union)
> bys id (year) : gen byte mark = _n == 1
>
> // we need some rounding in this dataset
> // to get a readable graph
> replace m = round(100*m ,10)
> replace sd = round(100*sd,10)
>
> // the graph
> tabplot m sd if mark
> *----------- end example ----------------
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