Stata Capabilities - Graphics

Stata 11 has many new features that are not yet mentioned here; see what's new in Stata Release 11.




More examples of graphs

Graphics Editor

Useful book: A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, 2nd edition


Many graph styles

  • Bar charts
  • Box plots
  • Histograms
  • Spike plots
  • Pie charts
  • Scatterplot matrices
  • Dot charts
  • Line charts
  • Area charts
  • Two-way scatterplots

Distributional diagnostic plots

  • Symmetry plots
  • Quantile plots
  • Quantile–normal plots
  • Normal probability plots
  • Quantile–chi-squared plots
  • Probability plots
  • Quantile–quantile plots
  • Cumulative-distribution plots
  • Dotplots

ROC curves

Spike plots

Graphic features

  • Combine graphs
  • Letter-value displays
  • Standard-error bar charts
  • Stem-and-leaf
  • Sunflower density-distribution plots
  • Various plotting symbols
  • Various connecting line options
  • Axis scaling and labeling
  • Multiple graph windows

Multivariate graphs

  • Biplots
  • Dendrograms
  • Shepard diagrams
  • Configuration plots
  • Correspondence analysis projection plots

Output formats

  • TIFF
  • PNG
  • PostScript
  • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
  • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) with TIFF preview
  • Windows Metafile
  • Windows Enhanced Metafile
  • Mac PICT

Multiple fonts New

  • Bold and italic
  • Serif and sans serif
  • Monospace and proportional
  • Greek letters
  • Mathematical symbols
  • Superscripts and subscripts

Graph Editor

  • Add
  • Remove
  • Move
  • Modify
  • Anything
  • Record and apply edits to other graphs New
Quality control
  • c charts
  • p charts
  • R charts
  • X-bar charts
  • Shewhart charts

Regression fit graphs

  • Added-variable plots (partial-regression leverage plots)
  • Component-plus-residual plots (partial residual plots)
  • Augmented component-plus-residual plots (augmented partial-residual plots)
  • Leverage-versus-squared residual plots
  • Residual-versus-fitted plots
  • Residual-versus-predictor plots (independent variable plots)

Smoothing

  • Local polynomial
  • LOWESS
  • Robust nonlinear
  • Kernel density

Survival plots

  • Kaplan–Meier survival curves
  • Nelson–Aalen cumulative hazard curves
  • Parametric fitted survival curves
  • Proportional hazard diagnostic curves

Time-series graphs

  • Periodograms
  • Cumulative sample spectral density
  • Line plots
  • Range plots with lines

Panel-data line plots

  • Graphs by panel
  • Overlaid panels

Panel-data line plots

  • graphs by panel
  • overlaid panels
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