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Re: st: Scaling problem with graphs
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Andrea Bennett <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Scaling problem with graphs
Date
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:54:02 +0200
Oh dear, you are so right Thanks a lot for the hint!
On Aug 23, 2012, at 14:55 , Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> From your bottom line it seems that these problems arise only because
> you think that
>
> graph bar Score, over(abil) over(treatment)
>
> can't be tweaked to produce different colours. However, that is not
> correct. The option -asyvars- has precisely this purpose.
>
> Consider the results of
>
> sysuse auto
> graph bar mpg, over(foreign) over(rep78)
> graph bar mpg, over(foreign) over(rep78) asyvars
> graph bar mpg, over(foreign) over(rep78) asyvars nofill
>
> You can naturally add further options to change the colours, etc.
>
> Nick
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Andrea Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have the following issue with Stata graphs. Combining the below graphs results in the bars of the first graph to be slightly narrower that bars in the graphs 2 and 3. I think the issue is related to me dropping the y-scale from the second graph. Is there a way to make them exactly the same size, e.g. by dealing with the margins?
>>
>> label define abil 0 "Low ability" 1 "High ability"
>> label values abil abil
>>
>> global format "ytitle("Percent", size(large)) ylabel(0(20)100, labsize(medium)) blabel(bar, format(%3.1f) size(medium)) ysc(r(0 100)) bar(1, color(gs12) lcolor(white) lwidth(thick)) bar(2, color(gs9) lcolor(white) lwidth(thick))"
>>
>> graph bar Score if treatment==1, bargap(0) legend(span rows(1)) over(abil, axis(off)) $format asyvars b1title("Control", size(large) margin(large)) graphregion(margin(2 0 6 4)) saving(abil1, replace)
>> graph bar Score if treatment==2, bargap(0) yscale(off) over(abil, axis(off)) $format asyvars b1title("Treatment A", size(large) margin(large)) graphregion(margin(0 0 6 4)) legend(off) saving(abil2, replace)
>> graph bar Score if treatment==3, bargap(0) yscale(off) over(abil, axis(off)) $format asyvars b1title("Treatment B", size(large) margin(large)) graphregion(margin(0 0 6 4)) legend(off) saving(abil3, replace)
>>
>> grc1leg abil1.gph abil2.gph abil3.gph, position(6) ring(1) rows(1) altshrink iscale(*1.5) legendfrom(abil1.gph) saving(abilfull, replace)
>>
>>
>>
>> Before you wonder why I chose this approach over the following: graph bar Score, over(abil) over(treatment). I was not able to set different colours for the "abil" bars.
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