Thanks Great Nick.
dotplot y1 y2, center mean
fit my desire perfectly.
Jeffrey
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Scatter plot
Sent: Sun Apr 27 23:56:43 CST 2003
> Jeffrey
>
> > Can anyone guide me how to draw the scatter plot of the following
> data in Stata 7.
> > (y1 vs. x1 and y2 vs. x2 in the same graph). Just the scatter plot
> rather than weighted scatter plot with weight option.
> >
> > If the mean of y1 and y2 can be added to the graph as a line
> respectively, that will be great!
> > Thanks.
> >
> > x1 y1 x2 y2
> > 1 10 2 10
> > 1 12 2 10
> > 1 12 2 10
> > 1 13 2 10
> > 1 15 2 10
> > 1 15 2 10
> > 1 15 2 13
> > 1 15 2 13
> > 1 15 2 12
> > 1 20 2 18
> > 1 20 2 19
> > 1 20 2 20
> > 1 20 2 11
> > 1 20 2 11
> > 1 25 2 11
> > 1 25 2 13
> > 1 29 2 14
> > 1 30 2 16
> > 1 31 2 11
> > 1 31 2 10
> > 1 32 2 12
>
> Given these data, I suspect that you might
> find
>
> dotplot y1 y2
>
> more informative than a scatterplot.
>
> But in general you would also possibly be better off
> with a different data structure. Here is one way
> to do it in Stata 7:
>
> preserve (if desired)
>
> gen id = _n
> reshape long x y, i(id)
> separate y, by(_j)
> label var y1 "y1"
> label var y2 "y2"
> su y1, meanonly
> local m1 = r(mean)
> su y2, meanonly
> local m2 = r(mean)
> graph y1 y2 x, yli(`m1' `m2')
>
> restore (if desired)
>
> OR
>
> (apart from the means) see -muxyplot- on SSC.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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