Speaking Stata: Axis practice, or what goes where on a graph
Nicholas J. Cox
Department of Geography
Durham University
Durham City, UK
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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.
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