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From: Clive Nicholas <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:43 pm
Subject: Re: st: RE: Nested If / then statement in a Bar Graph
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>
> This is pretty neat, Scott, but what if you want to change this to
> showthe graph as, say, thin(ish) horizontal bars? I changed -bar-
> to -hbar-
> everywhere in the code, but it threw up error messages, so
> obviously I was
> doing something wrong! That said, I was able to add extra bars for
> extravariables without too much difficulty.
>
Clive,
Changing -graph bar ... - to -graph hbar...- seems to work for me. One way to get thinner(ish) bars would be to change to gaps. Something like
graph hbar (mean) b_* , outergap(100) bargap(250) ///
> That leads to the second question. If you're like me and you're
> running a
> model with 50 variables, presumably there's no quick-and-dirty
> workaround.
Sometimes, tables can be nice.
I suppose, you could pick up the list of variables from -regress- and cycle through them in a more automated manner or pick up the elements you need from e(b) and e(V).
> Third, what if Alex wanted to use beta-weights as opposed to b-scores?
> Unfortunately, -ereturn list- doesn't leave these behind even if
> you enter
>
> . reg price disp length, beta
>
> but, again, maybe there's a workaround here, too.
Kit Baum's -betacoef- returns the beta coefficients in matrix. One way would be:
sysuse auto,clear
qui {
reg price disp length
betacoef
matrix A = r(beta)
gen b_disp = A[1,1]
gen b_length = A[1,2]
scalar t_disp = _b[disp] / _se[disp]
scalar t_length = _b[length] / _se[length]
if abs(t_disp) > 1.96 {
local bar1 "1, bfcolor(red) blcolor(red)"
}
else {
local bar1 "1, bfcolor(blue) blcolor(blue)"
}
if abs(t_length) > 1.96 {
local bar2 "2, bfcolor(red) blcolor(red)"
}
else {
local bar2 "2, bfcolor(blue) blcolor(blue)"
}
}
graph hbar (mean) b_* , outergap(100) bargap(250) ///
bar(`bar1') bar(`bar2') ytitle("Beta Coefficients") ///
blabel(bar, position(outside))
Scott
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