Re: st: CATPLOT to compare

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

What I think you want can be done. Study this code and adapt to your
circumstances.

sysuse auto, clear
catplot rep78 foreign, percent(rep78)  blabel(bar)

preserve
local Np1 = _N + 1
expand 2
replace rep78 = 6 in `Np1'/L
gen extra = _n >= `Np1'
label def rep78 6 "Total"
label val rep78 rep78
catplot rep78 foreign, percent(rep78 extra) blabel(bar)
restore

On some details:

1. The reference "Cox 2004" is ambiguous even with a guess as to who
and where. References should not have to be guessed: on Statalist we
ask for the same standards of referencing as you would want to
encounter in scholarly or scientific work.

2. The syntax you quote could only work with -catplot- 2.0.0 or later
(SSC 2010).

3. On the form -catplot- rather than CATPLOT please see

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-03/msg00513.html

Nick

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Lucie Vlach
<Lucie.Vlach@albertahealthservices.ca> wrote:

> This seems like an easy task, but I cannot figure this out.
> I need to set up a bar graph sharing the same axis (if possible), showing a comparison of patient gender breakdown (in percent) for one doctor vs. whole clinic (in percent).
>
> Using Nick Cox’s catplot (Cox 2004), I am trying this:
> catplot doctor gender, percent(doctor)  blabel(bar)
> (doctor is float  %9.0g  and gender is  float  %9.0g)
> Stata IC 11.2 ver.
>
> But I cannot seem to be able to add the clinic overall gender percentage side by side with the individual doctor stats. For example, I need MALE showing 48.45% for doc, next to 38.07% for overall clinic and then FEMALE showing the rest respectively.
> Do I need to create an additional variable to make this work?

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