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Re: st: Three-way (or more) histograms in Stata
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"JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Three-way (or more) histograms in Stata
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Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:07:27 -0400
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't go either way personally. I would consider using -kdensity-
> to generate different densities, then superimpose, or look at a
> quantile plot using -qplot- (SJ).
>
Exactly what I was going to say. Superimposed histograms are tough to
read and interpret. Depending on the distribution even a -kdensity-
plot won't be that informative about important behavior such as in the
tails, which is why hazard functions or -qplot- are frequently used.
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