The relevant helpfiles may not have been immediately obvious from the
example. They are:
help histogram
help addplot option
help twoway function
help normalden (I used the old fashioned -normden- function, my bad)
-- Maarten
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ana Gabriela Guerrero Serdan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry, my mean (not median) is -1 so I want a
> > hypothetical normal distribution to be centered around
> > 0 not -1. The reason is that I would like to compare
> > the distribution of my sample to a hypothetical
> > distribution. So I want to plot both distributions in
> > the histogram.
>
> What about this:
>
> *-------------------- begin example ------------------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> sum mpg
> local sd = r(sd)
> hist mpg, ///
> plot(function y = normden(x,30,`sd'), range(12 41)) ///
> legend(order(1 "density" ///
> 2 "theoretical" "normal"))
> *-------------------- end example --------------------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
>
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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