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Re: st: how to draw several kdensity curves in one graph
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"G. Dai" <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: how to draw several kdensity curves in one graph
Date
Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:21:46 -0800
thanks, Chris and Martin. It works well. Guang
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> " Possibly this is the command you would want to use
> for more recent versions of Stata, but I am not sure."
>
>
>
>
> Nope, yours still works fine, even though the -twoway- version would
> probably be preferred these days. Stata 11 processes this w/o complaining:
>
>
> *******
>
> clear*
> set obs 5
> gen byte year=_n
> expand 1000
> gen var=rchi2(5)+year
> kdensity var if (year==1), plot(kdensity var if ///
> (year==2)||kdensity var if (year==3)) legend(ring(0) pos(2) ///
> label(1 "1999") label(2 "1989") label(3 "1979") )
> *******
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Hajzler
> Sent: Dienstag, 2. März 2010 22:53
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: how to draw several kdensity curves in one graph
>
> I should have mentioned one more thing: I use an older version of
> Stata (Stata 8), but when I was researching commands, some
> instructions mentioned "addplot" instead of just plot, but this did
> not work for me. Possibly this is the command you would want to use
> for more recent versions of Stata, but I am not sure.
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Christopher Hajzler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Guang,
> >
> > Coincidentally, I was just wrestling with the same thing myself
> > yesterday. Here is the command I used:
> >
> > kdensity var if (year==1999), plot(kdensity var if
> > (year==1989)||kdensity var if (year==1979)) legend(ring(0) pos(2)
> > label(1 "1999") label(2 "1989") label(3 "1979") )
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Christopher Hajzler <[email protected]
> >
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Guang,
> >>
> >> Coincidentally, I was just wrestling with the same thing myself
> yesterday. Here is the command I used:
> >>
> >> kdensity var if (year==1999), plot(kdensity var if
> (year==1989)||kdensity
> var if (year==1979)) legend(ring(0) pos(2) label(1 "1999") label(2 "1989")
> label(3 "1979") )
> >>
> >> Hope this helps!
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM, G. Dai <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> dear all,
> >>> I have income observation from several different years. For each year,
> I
> >>> can
> >>> easily draw a density curve by using kdensity. however, I'd like to
> have
> the
> >>> distribution
> >>> curves for different years on the same graph. how can I achieve that?
> >>> regards,
> >>> Guang
> >>>
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