Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions

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.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