A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1 Introduction
	1.1 Using this book
	1.2 Types of Stata graphs
	1.3 Schemes
	1.4 Options
	1.5 Building graphs
2 Editor
	2.1 Overview
	2.2 Browser
	2.3 Modifying
	2.4 Adding
	2.5 Moving
	2.6 Hiding/Showing
	2.7 Locking/Unlocking
	2.8 Graph Recorder
	2.9 Editor vs. commands
3 Twoway
	3.1 Scatter
	3.2 Fit
	3.3 CI fit
	3.4 Line
	3.5 Area
	3.6 Bar
	3.7 Range
	3.8 Distribution
	3.9 Contour
	3.10 Options
	3.11 Overlaying
4 Matrix
	4.1 Marker options
	4.2 Axes
	4.3 Matrix options
	4.4 By
5 Bar
	5.1 Y variables
	5.2 Over
	5.3 Bar gaps
	5.4 Bar sorting
	5.5 Cat axis
	5.6 Legends/Labels
	5.7 Y axis
	5.8 Lookofbar options
	5.9 By
6 Box
	6.1 Yvars and over
	6.2 Box gaps
	6.3 Box sorting
	6.4 Cat axis
	6.5 Legend
	6.6 Y axis
	6.7 Boxlook options
	6.8 By
7 Dot
	7.1 Yvars and over
	7.2 Dot gaps
	7.3 Dot sorting
	7.4 Cat axis
	7.5 Legend
	7.6 Y axis
	7.7 Dotlook options
	7.8 By
8 Pie
	8.1 Types of pie charts
	8.2 Sorting
	8.3 Colors and exploding
	8.4 Labels
	8.5 Legend
	8.6 By
9 Options
	9.1 Markers
	9.2 Marker labels
	9.3 Connecting
	9.4 Axis titles
	9.5 Axis labels
	9.6 Axis scales
	9.7 Axis selection
	9.8 By
	9.9 Legend
	9.10 Adding text
	9.11 Textboxes
	9.12 Text display
10 Standard options
	10.1 Titles
	10.2 Schemes
	10.3 Sizing graphs
	10.4 Graph regions
11 Styles
	11.1 Angles
	11.2 Colors
	11.3 Clockpos
	11.4 Compassdir
	11.5 Connect
	11.6 Linepatterns
	11.7 Linewidth
	11.8 Margins
	11.9 Markersize
	11.10 Orientation
	11.11 Symbols
	11.12 Textsize
12 Appendix
	12.1 Stat
	12.2 Stat options
	12.3 Marginsplot
	12.4 Save/Redisplay/Combine
	12.5 More examples
	12.6 Common mistakes
	12.7 Schemes
	12.8 Online
Subject index