Thanks for your answers, the problem has been solved.
I don't think the solution proposed by Nick could make the problem
simpler. I am repeating the same graph for different countries, so the
and the scale of the variables changes a lot from country to country
(gdp growth is usually between -10 and 10 percent for every country,
while nominal exchange rate change ranges from -50 to 400 percent. In
order to implement solution I should divide one of the series by a
constant, and that constant should be different for each country. I
should first decide the magnitude of the constant for each country,
etc.
Again, thank you all for your helpful comments!
Leandro
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I certainly understood that Leandro wants zeros on two axes to be
> aligned.
>
> What I didn't (don't) understand why that is problematic in Stata when
> there are solutions of (1) just plot data as they come (2) divide one
> series by a constant so it's comparable with the other. I wouldn't even
> touch the range sub-option.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Martin Weiss
>
> " I am not completely clear what the problem is"
>
> Actually, I found the problem exceptionally clear in this case:
>
> *************
> clear*
> set seed 123456
> set obs 100
> gen time=_n
> gen serieA=rnormal()
> gen serieB=rnormal(1,2)
> tw (line serieA time, yaxis(1) yli(0)) (line serieB time, yaxis(2))
> *************
>
> I just did not know how to align the zero point on the left and right
> axis,
> to be honest...
>
> Nick Cox
>
> I am not completely clear what the problem is, but it seems that just
> dividing one series by some constant might be simpler for you.
>
> Is either series ever negative?
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Leandro Brufman
>
> I am doing a -graph twoway line- with depicting two series over time
> with different axis
> - graph twoway (line serieA time, yaxis(1)) (line serieB time, yaxis(2))
> -
>
> I would like to have both axis(1) and axis(2) with the same "zero
> level". That is, I would like both axis to be zero at the exact same
> point in the graph.
> I am repeating this graph for many samples, so fiddling with -range
> suboptions- is not very helpful.
>
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