Re: st: Stacked bar graph with twoway__histogram_gen

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Stefano Lombardi <lombardi_stefano@fastwebnet.it>:
At a glance, your -rbar- goes from freq_2 to the sum, not freq_1 to the sum.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Stefano Lombardi
<lombardi_stefano@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have a problem in plotting a stacked bar graph. I have read some
> documentation on the Internet and I am really close to obtain what I need,
> but still I cannot manage to solve one issue (I haven't found any similar
> problem on the Statalist archive..)
>
> In practice, I have one duration variable in months (overall survival, "os")
> which as usual can be either censored or uncensored (the failure dummy is
> "status_os"; 1 = os is uncensored). I need to create a stacked bar graph
> with different colors for censored and uncensored data (blue and red,
> respectively). My code is the following:
>
>    use "epd0", clear
>    twoway__histogram_gen os if status_os==0, gen(freq_1 x, replace) ///
>    freq start(0) width(5)
>    drop if missing(x)
>    keep freq_1 x
>    save f1, replace
>
>    use "epd0", clear
>    twoway__histogram_gen os if status_os==1, gen(freq_2 x, replace) ///
>    freq start(0) width(5)
>    drop if missing(x)
>    keep freq_2 x os
>
>    merge 1:1     x using f1
>    mvencode freq_1 freq_2, mv(. = 0)
>
>    egen freq = rowtotal(freq_1 freq_2)
>
>    twoway ///
>    (bar freq_1 x, barw(5) bcolor(red)) ///
>    rbar freq_2 freq x, barw(5) bcolor(blue) ///
>    legend(order(1 "Uncensored" 2 "Censored")) ///
>    xtitle("`: var label os'") ytitle(Frequency)
>
> Everything looks perfect but for one thing. In one bin there is a blank gap
> between the lower red bar (which counts for two observations) and the upper
> blue bar (other two observations).
> Actually -- also by checking the previously generated frequencies --  the
> lower bar should correspond to three observations, hence the blank gap
> should be red.
>
> Can you suggest any solution? It may be a coincidence, but that bin is the
> only one where there should be plotted more uncensored (red) data than
> censored (blue) ones.

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