Help with cumulative frequency chart

[Yashika Parashar]

cumulative frequency chart

[Andrew Musau]

There is no special command for that. Simply create the cumulative variable and use it to plot.

webuse grunfeld, clear
keep if t<=10 & company==1
line invest year, title(Investment) xtitle("") ytitle("") saving(gr1, replace)

*GEN CUMULATIVE VARIABLE
bys company (year): gen cum_invest= sum(invest)
*PLOT
line cum_invest year, title(Cumulative Investment) xtitle("") ytitle("") saving(gr2, replace)

gr combine gr1.gph gr2.gph, ycommon

[Nick Cox]

If cumulative frequency means any cumulative sum then, as Andrew Musau points out, you can just use the Stata function sum() to get a new variable.

Among other community-contributed commands, distplot has been available since 1999 for plotting cumulative distribution functions and various siblings and cousins.

The latest public version was released in 2019.

. search distplot, sj historical

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SJ-19-1 gr41_5  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for distplot
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/19   SJ 19(1):260
        changes include better handling of the by() option calls;
        simpler default y-axis titles; more detailed discussion of
        exactly what is plotted; and more information on ridits

SJ-10-1 gr41_4  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for distplot
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/10   SJ 10(1):164
        new reverse(ge) option specifies plotting probabilities or
        frequencies greater than or equal to any data value

SJ-5-3  gr0018  . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: The protean quantile plot
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q3/05   SJ 5(3):442--460           (see gr41_3 and gr42_3 for commands)
        discusses quantile and distribution plots as used in
        the analysis of species abundance data in ecology

SJ-5-3  gr41_3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for distplot
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q3/05   SJ 5(3):471
        simplified syntax; both by() and over() are now allowed

SJ-4-2  gr0004  .  Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical and compositional data
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q2/04   SJ 4(2):190--215                                 (no commands)
        discusses graphical possibilities for categorical and
        compositional data

SJ-4-1  gr0003  . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/04   SJ 4(1):66--88                                   (no commands)
        a review of official and user-written commands for
        graphing univariate distributions; includes tricks
        beyond what is obviously and readily available

SJ-3-4  gr41_2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for distplot
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q4/03   SJ 3(4):449
        option tscale() renamed as trscale()

SJ-3-2  gr41_1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for distplot
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q2/03   SJ 3(2):211
        enhanced to use Stata 8 graphics and provides new options

STB-51  gr41  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Distribution function plots
        (help distplot if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        9/99    pp.12--16; STB Reprints Vol 9, pp.108--112
        plots the cumulative distribution function or survival function
        and allows multiple variables