Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
8
Options available for most graphs
This chapter discusses options that are used in many, but not all, kinds of graphs in
Stata, as compared with the
Standard options
(313) chapter, which covers options that are
standard in all Stata graphs. This chapter goes into greater detail about how to use these
options to customize your graphs. As you can see from the
Visual Table of Contents
at
the right, this chapter covers markers, connecting, axis titles, labels, scales, selection, using
the
by()
option, legends, added text, and textboxes. For further details, the examples will
frequently refer to sections of
Styles
(327) and to [
G
]
graph
.
8.1
Changing the look of markers
This section looks at options that we can use for controlling markers. While the ex-
amples in this section focus on
twoway scatter
, these options apply to any graph where
you have markers and can control them. This section will show how to change the marker
symbol, marker size, and color (both fill and outline color). For more information, see
[
G
]
marker options
. We will start this section using the
vg s2c
scheme.
twoway scatter ownhome borninstate
Consider this scatterplot showing the
relationship between the percentage of
people in a state who own their home
and the percentage of people born in
their state of residence. The markers
used in this plot are filled circles.
Uses allstates.dta & scheme vg s2c
20
40
60
80
% born in state of residence
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