st: RE: line plot with individual's median

["Cathy L. Antonakos" <cathya@umich.edu>]

Thanks, this works and is what I needed.

Cathy
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:14:34 +0100
From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: st: RE: line plot with individual's median

Here is an analogue to your problem as I understand it.

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. egen median = median(price), by(rep78)

. sort rep78 mpg

. twoway connected price mpg || line median mpg , by(rep78) legend(order(2))

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk



> I am using the following command to plot time-series data for 
> individual nursing home residents.
>
> twoway connected wanpcto hourx, by(resid)
>
> This produces an individual graph for each resident.
>
> Now I want to add the median for the resident - plotted as a line.
> I'll calculate that beforehand and call it 'medianpct'.
>
> Is there a way to add a yline command to do that?
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