Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions

Nicholas Cox

Stata Journal, 2004, vol. 4, issue 1, 66-88

Abstract: Graphing univariate distributions is central to both statistical graphics, in general, and StataÕs graphics, in particular. Now that Stata 8 is out, a review of official and user-written commands is timely. The emphasis here is on going beyond what is obviously and readily available, with pointers to minor and major trickery and various user-written commands. For plotting histogram-like displays, kerneldensity estimates and plots based on distribution functions or quantile functions, a large variety of choices is now available to the researcher. Copyright 2004 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: graphics; histogram; spikeplot; dotplot; onewayplot; kdensity; distplot; qplot; skewplot; bin width; rug; density function; kernel estimation; transformations; logarithmic scale; root scale; intensity function; distribution function; quantile function; skewness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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