Graphs Everyone Should Know and How to Create Them in Stata

Franz Buscha is a Professor of Economics in the School of Organisations, Economy and Society at the University of Westminster (London, U.K.) with 20 years of Stata and econometric experience. Franz's research specializes in areas of labour economics, including the returns to education and social mobility. He has published in leading journals, contributed to numerous policy reports, and held prestigious grants. He has even had a radio show called Policy Matters for a few years! Franz loves all things Stata and hopes that he will someday be able to learn everything about it.

• I Graphs for univariate data Histograms Introduction A basic histogram Spike plots Histograms with varying bin widths Multiple histograms Mirrored histograms Ridgeline histograms Kernel density plots Introduction A basic kernel density plot Cumulative distribution plots Multiple kernel density plots Mirrored kernel density plots Ridgeline kernel density plots Box plots Introduction A basic box plot Horizontal box plots Box plots with histograms Multiple box plots Violin plots Introduction A basic violin plot Horizontal violin plots Multiple violin plots Custom widths Dot plots Introduction A basic dot plot Multiple dot plots Horizontal dot plots Beam plots Dot plots with box plots Cumulative dot plots Stem-and-leaf plots Introduction A basic stem-and-leaf plot A graphical stem-and-leaf plot A horizontal stem-and-leaf plot Mirrored stem-and-leaf plots Distributional diagnostic plots Introduction Symmetry plots Skew plots Quantile-uniform plots Quantile-normal plots Quantile χ plots Quantile–quantile plots Rootograms Introduction A basic rootogram Hanging rootograms Univariate bar charts Introduction A basic frequency bar chart Percentage bar charts Horizontal bar charts Sorted bar charts Multiple bar charts Dot charts Pie charts Introduction A basic pie chart Multiple pie charts Radar charts Introduction A basic radar chart Multiple-radar charts Radar charts with too few or too many categories Frequency radar chart II Graphs for bivariate data Scatterplots Introduction A basic scatterplot Scatterplots with multiple y and x variables Scatterplots over categorical groups Scatterplots with marginal distributions Binned scatterplots Heat plots Introduction A basic heat plot Hex-heat plots Sunflower plots Line plots Introduction A basic area plot Sparkline plots Area and shaded range plots Introduction A basic area plot Data with variation Shaded range plots Pair plots Multiple area and shaded range plots Lines of best fit Introduction A basic best fit plot Quadratic fits Fractional polynomial fits Multiple lines of best fit Custom polynomial fits Multiple custom polynomial fits Constrained lines of best fit Nonparametric fits (smoothers) Lines of best fit with confidence intervals Multiple lines of best fit with confidence intervals Lines of best fit with recast confidence intervals Jitter plots Introduction A basic jitter plot A complex jitter plot Jitter plots with continuous values Table plots Introduction A basic table plot Three-way table plot Balloon plots Bivariate bar charts Introduction A basic two-way frequency bar chart Stacked bar charts Introduction A basic two-way stacked frequency bar chart Two-way stacked percentage bar chart Slide plots Mosaic plots III Graphs for multivariate data Matrix plots Introduction Correlation matrix Matrix scatterplots Cross plots Trellis plots Contour plots Introduction A basic contour plot Contour-line plots Contour plots with custom colors Contour plots with small and incomplete datasets Trivariate heat plots Introduction A basic trivariate heat plot Bubble plots Introduction A basic bubble plot Chernoff faces Introduction Basic Chernoff faces Triplots Introduction A basic triplot 3D scatterplot Introduction A basic 3D scatterplot 3D scatterplot without autoscaling 3D surface plots IV Special graphs Animated graphs Introduction A basic animated graph Rainbow plots Introduction A basic rainbow plot A complex rainbow line plot A complex rainbow box plot Plotting regression results Introduction Visualizing coefficients from one regression Plotting coefficients from two regressions Plotting coefficients from four regressions Plotting coefficients from a regression with an interaction term Maps Introduction A basic geographic map Choropleth maps Submaps Plotting equations Introduction A basic mathematical function A custom equation A statistical function Polynomial regression terms References Author index Subject index