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Title

Scheme description: burd

Syntax

schemename Foreground Background Description

burd color white BuRd, a blue-red color scheme
burd3 color white BuRd with 3 diverging classes
burd4 color white BuRd with 4 diverging classes
...
burd10 color white BuRd with 10 diverging classes
burd11 color white BuRd with 11 diverging classes

For instance, you might type

. graph
...,
...
scheme(burd)

. graph
...,
...
scheme(burd5)

. set
scheme
burd
[,
permanently]

See [G-3] scheme_option and [G-2] set scheme.

Description

Schemes determine the overall look of a graph; see
[G-4] schemes intro.

The burd scheme is an alternative rendering of the s2color scheme based on
Svend Juul's lean scheme (Juul 2003) and Cynthia Brewer's "RdBu" ColorBrewer scheme (Brewer 2002).

The burd3 to burd11 sub-schemes provide blue-to-red diverging color scales for up to 11 data classes,
which might be useful to plot ordered response scales in survey data.

Details and examples of the BuRd scheme in use are available through its development repository at GitHub: https://github.com/briatte/burd

References

Brewer, C. 2002. ColorBrewer. http://www.colorbrewer.org

Juul, S. 2003. Lean mainstream schemes for Stata 8 graphics.
Stata Journal 3(3): 295-301.

Author

François Briatte.
Email: f.briatte@ed.ac.uk

Inspiration for this scheme came from Nicholas Cox and Edwin Leuven.

Also see

Manual: [G] schemes, [G] scheme_option, [G] set scheme

Online: help for schemes, scheme_option, set_scheme, scheme_s2color

help for scheme_lean if installed