st: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram

["Radwin, David" <dradwin@rti.org>]

Yes, as the help file states, you can use the -vertical- option, although this tends to conflict with -showyvars- if the variable labels are not brief.

catplot rep78, asyvars bargap(20) blabel(bar) showyvars legend(off) percent vertical

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: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Andres
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:50 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram
> 
> Thank you. It works fine. Is there any way to rotate the graph using
> catplot?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Radwin, David
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:42 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram
> 
> Sorry, change that last line to:
> 
> catplot rep78, asyvars bargap(20) blabel(bar) showyvars legend(off)
> percent
> 
> 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: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Radwin, David
> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:41 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: to change bar colors in a histogram
> >
> > 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: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez
> > > Andres
> > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:32 AM
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > 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: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Radwin, David
> > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:19 PM
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > 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: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > > > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez
> > > > Andres
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:43 AM
> > > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > > 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/