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From | "Radwin, David" <[email protected]> |
To | <[email protected]> |
Subject | st: RE: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram |
Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:41:16 -0500 |
Try this: ssc install catplot sysuse auto, clear label define rep78 1 "Completely satisfied" 2 "Somewhat satisfied" 3 "Neutral" 4 "Somewhat dissatisfied" 5 "Completely dissatisfied" label values rep78 rep78 catplot rep78, asyvars bargap(20) blabel(bar) showyvars legend(off) David -- David Radwin, Senior Research Associate Education and Workforce Development RTI International 2150 Shattuck Ave. Suite 800, Berkeley, CA 94704 Phone: 510-665-8274 www.rti.org/education > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Andres > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: st: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram > > Imagine I want to create a histogram for a variable such as job > satisfaction with 5 levels. > > histogram jobsatisfaction, discrete percent xlabel (1 "Completely > satisfied" 2 "Satisfied"....etc > the idea is to plot the different bars for different levels of job > satisfaction with different colors > Antonio > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Radwin, David > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: st: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram > > Antonio, > > I am not sure I understand your situation, but it sounds like instead of a > histogram with 2 bars, you want a graph of proportions. Try -catplot- > (Nick Cox, available from SSC), perhaps with the -asyvars- option to show > different colors. > > David > -- > David Radwin, Senior Research Associate > Education and Workforce Development > RTI International > 2150 Shattuck Ave. Suite 800, Berkeley, CA 94704 > Phone: 510-665-8274 > > www.rti.org/education > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Andres > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:43 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: st: to change bar colors in a histogram > > > > Dear Stata users > > > > I am trying to create a histogram for the proportion of the population > > having mental health problems (Yes or No). The mental health measure > > is binary. I want to create a simple histogram with the bar color > > different for each response Yes or No. That is my Stata code > > > > histogram MENTAL, discrete bcolor(blue) barw(0.5) addlabel percent > > xlabel > > (1 > > "Yes" 0 "NO") title("Mental Health Problems: Total Population") > > > > Any advice > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Antonio > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/