The implication for pronunciation is that if I thought about it as series set then the voice in my head would sound like "sear set". If Nick Cox or one of the Stata developers who occasionally contribute here cannot explain serset more thoroughly, with a historical background and intended pronunciation, then I'm not sure there is an answer.Īdded in edit: crossed with Nick's post. And based on that, what I hear in my head when I read it is "sir set".īut none of the above is authoritative, and nobody should pay attention to the voices in my head. With that in mind, I will hazard a guess that it may be an artifical word constructed as a shortening of service set. The documentation explains a serset as being like a dataset but used, primarily, for the creation of Stata graphics. To learn how, check out this Tech Tip about The label. In Stata, you can attach meaning to those categorical/ordinal variables with value labels. As histograms are most commonly used to display ordinal or categorical (sometimes called nominal) variables, the bin numbers shown usually represent something. I must admit to having no idea what the "word" serset means. When creating histograms in Stata, by default Stata lists the bin numbers along the x-axis. I don't know anyone who would enter "Stata" as the answer to "what was your first spoken language" on a survey. We're all foreigners when it comes to speaking Stata.
#Stata histograms pdf#
Maybe I need to spend some time with that PDF I recommended. I will admit to building this example one or two lines at a time, hacking at it until it worked the way I needed. I don't know why that is, but I haven't spent any effort trying to figure out why, either. Note that sersets, like local macros, vanish when the do-file within which they were created comes to an end.Īnd if you noted that the variable names given by serset dir do not match the variable names created when the serset is used, you get extra credit.