st: jitter

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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The jitter option in Stata graphs adds user controlled amounts of  
spherical noise to plotted data, useful for categorical data plots to  
prevent overprinting. But when only the X axis of a plot is  
categorical, I don't necessarily want to add scatter in my Y axis. I  
just want to add scatter in the X axis. It would be nice to have the  
jitter option take two arguments, one for X and one for Y, say,

scatter y x, jitter(0 7)

to jitter the x axis only.

I know I can manually add some amount of random noise to a new  
generated variable of X and plot that, but making the jitter option  
do the above would be more desirable for me!

-Dave


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