This was answered by me in some detail yesterday
on Statalist. Please see the archives.
In short, what you want is a reasonable thing
to want, but -ciplot- is not written in a way
that supports it.
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Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Daniel Egan
> Sent: 27 May 2004 17:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: mlabel option for ciplot does not return correct labels
>
>
> This is the second post trying to get an answer to this, so
> after this I'll
> take the hint...
>
> I would like to be able to use
> labels with the mean markers that represent various things (right now,
> number of observations in each category).
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> egen n=count(foreign), by(foreign)
> table foreign n
> ciplot mpg, by(foreign) mlab(n)
>
> These labels always only correspond to the value of the first
> categorical
> label, i.e., category 2's label is the value for category
> one. It is strange
> since they seem to be working with , mlab(n) correctly.
>
> How might I go about having each label value correspond to
> the category
> specific value?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel Egan
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