Re: st: Performance histograms

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

If you want a hundered bins for a hundred observations, than you are
not binning. Instead you are probably not looking for a histrogram but
instead want to use Nick Cox's -stripplot- (see: -ssc desc
stripplot-).

*---------- begin example --------------
sysuse auto, clear
gen byte id = .
forvalues i = 1/`=_N' {
	replace id = _n == `i'
	stripplot mpg , stack separate(id) name(gr`i')
}
*----------- end example -----------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Huerta, Tim <tim.huerta@ttu.edu> wrote:
> I have 100 observations of a continuous variable - lets call it X.
>
> For each observation, I want to create a histogram of the X variable and
> then indicate in which bar that specific observation exists.
>
> I'd like to save the graph with the observation name - for instance:
> chart001
> chart002
> .
> .
> .
> chart100
>
> In excel, the graph might look like this...
> http://statalist.1588530.n2.nabble.com/file/n7318500/sample.jpg
> However, I plan to have 100 bins - so doing this 100 times, across 6
> variables would be a challenge without some efficient coding.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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