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st: RE: RE: Re: graph with 2 x axes


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Re: graph with 2 x axes
Date   Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:06:00 +0100

In fact, you don't need any of this new class stuff. 
-histogram- is already prepared to think that 
it has a second x axis. 

Here is another take, this time using -mylabels- 
from SSC to get the label positions: 

. sysuse auto 

. su mpg

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
         mpg |        74     21.2973    5.785503         12         41

. mylabels -1/3, myscale(21.2973 + (@) * 5.788503) local(LABELS) 
15.5088 "-1" 21.2973 "0" 27.0858 "1" 32.8743 "2" 38.6628 "3"

. histogram mpg, xaxis(1 2) xla(`LABELS', axis(2))  xtitle(z scale, axis(2))
(bin=8, start=12, width=3.625)

Here I knew from the earlier graph that a sensible range was -1 to 3 on 
the z scale. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Nick Cox
 
> In the same spirit, and standing on Vince's shoulders (*), 
> 
> ------------------------------- myhistogram.do 
> qui su `0' 
> local imin = ceil((r(min) - r(mean))/r(sd)) 
> local imax = floor((r(max) - r(mean))/r(sd)) 
> forval i = `imin'/`imax' { 
> 	local labels `"`labels' `= r(mean) + (`i') * r(sd)' "`i'" "' 
> }
> set graphics off 
> histogram `0', t1(z scale)
> .Graph.insert (.xaxis2 = .axis.new , position(above)) above 
> plotregion1
> .Graph.set_axis_plotregion xaxis2 plotregion1 x
> .Graph.xaxis2.major.add_ticks `labels' 
> set graphics on
> graph display
> ----------------------------------- 
> 
> This should work as follows:  
> 
> do myhistogram systolic 
> do myhistogram systolic if female 
> 
> etc. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> (*) A book on catastrophe theory bore a dedication to a 
> beloved mentor: 
> "at whose feet we sit, on whose shoulders we stand". Only 
> topologists could 
> visualise the resulting position. 
> 
> Christopher F Baum
> 
> > Please see Vince Wiggins' talk from the London meetings, where he 
> > presented code to do something like that in the example using US 
> > states.
> > 
> > http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/usug04.html
> > 
> 
> Richard T. Campbell
>  
> > > For teaching purposes,I would like to display a histogram with
> > > overlaid normal density. I would like to display two x 
> axes on this
> > > graph, one in the scale of the original variable, say 
> systolic blood
> > > pressure and the other in the Z transform of that variable I can't
> > > seem to figure out how to do that. Can someone help?
> 

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