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Re: st: Plot of horizontal bars in descending order of the percentages of categories of a string variable
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jose maria pacheco de souza <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Plot of horizontal bars in descending order of the percentages of categories of a string variable
Date
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:12:17 -0200
Em 01/12/2013 12:19, Nick Cox escreveu:
Good, but I don't know what you are quoting from here.
Nick
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Try -catplot- (SSC).
Nick
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help for catplot
Remarks
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Note some simple principles in this territory:
It is difficult to create a great graph, but easy to improve a
bad one.
Comparisons must be easy. That could mean in one dimension,
across a row or down a column, or it could mean using a table structure.
Ordering by magnitude may be even more useful than ordering by
category.
Bars are better than pie slices as length is easier to judge
than angle. Dots on a scale are a good way to include magnitudes.
Text is better read as horizontal than as vertical.
Showing numbers as text as well by graphical elements can be
helpful.
Lose the legend if you can. A great advantage of graph hbar |
bar | dot is strong support for category labels, which can be nested too.
josé maria
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