Speaking Stata: Axis practice, or what goes where on a graph

Nicholas Cox

Stata Journal, 2012, vol. 12, issue 3, 549-561

Abstract: Conventions about what information goes on each axis of a two-way plot are precisely that, conventions. This column discusses—historically, syntactically, and by example-the idea that flouting convention in various ways can lead to small but useful improvements in graph display. Putting y-axis information on the right or on the top, or putting x-axis information on the top, often is useful. The most substantial examples are for multiple quantile plots, for which the new command multqplot is offered, and table-like graphs, which are made even more table-like by mimicking column headers.

Keywords: multqplot; qplot; tabplot; axes; coordinates; quantile plots; two-way bar charts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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