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

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  • Nicholas J. Cox

    (Durham University, UK)

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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.

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  • Nicholas J. Cox, 2012. "Speaking Stata: Axis practice, or what goes where on a graph," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 12(3), pages 549-561, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:549-561
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