Thanks Roger. This works beautifully! -rcap- didn't handle the horizontal plotting well but -eclplot- does.
Liz
>>> On 3/26/2009 at 3:36 PM, in message
<[email protected]>, "Newson, Roger B"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> One possibility here might be to use -eclplot-, downloadable from SSC, which
> combines the functions of -rcap- and -scatter- in a single command. To see a
> description of -eclplot-, type, in Stata,
>
> ssc describe eclplot
>
> and to download -eclplot-, type
>
> ssc install eclplot, replace
>
> The on-line help for -eclplot- contains some hypertext references on how to use
> -eclplot-, together with other packages.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 26 March 2009 19:11
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Graph showing ORs (or RRs) and confidence intervals
>
> -hplot- (which goes back to 1997 at least) still works! But there was no
> point in my updating it. It was superseded in Stata 8 by both -graph
> dot- (etc.) and various -twoway- commands. The StataCorp developers
> looked carefully at the same sources of inspiration.
>
> So, in terms of new Stata graphics, this could be a -twoway- plot using
> both -rcap- and -scatter-.
>
> There is a pertinent tutorial in
>
> SJ-8-2 gr0034 . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Between tables and
> graphs
> (help labmask, seqvar if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . N.
> J. Cox
> Q2/08 SJ 8(2):269--289
> outlines techniques for producing table-like graphs
>
> I will be talking around this kind of topic at the Washington, DC
> meeting in July.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Elizabeth Allred
>
> Back in 2001 (Version 6) Nick Cox wrote a program called hplot with
> which one could display odds (or risk) ratios and confidence intervals.
> Has anybody updated hplot or written something similar that they'd be
> willing to share?
>
> Below is a sketch of what I'm looking for.
>
> Liz
>
> |
> var A | |---------x----------------|
> |
> var B ||-----------x--------------------|
> |
> var C | |-------x------------|
> |
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