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From | Ulrich Kohler <kohler@wzb.eu> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Sequence index plots, subpopuations |
Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:59:12 +0100 |
Sonja, the newest version of the -sq- package on SSC (-ssc install sq-) has a -sqmodalplot- which might be usefull. Many regards Uli Am Montag, den 24.01.2011, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Sonja Bastin: > Hi everyone, > > as I have seen in other researcher's work there must be a possibilty to get > well comparable sequence index plots for subpopulations containing differing > numbers of observations. > For example, I want to compare east and west Germans. My sample contains 956 > West Germans, whereas only 319 East Germans which means in the left graph > there are 956 sequences displayed, in the right one 319. And as the vertical > axis however is the same for both graphs the images are difficult to > compare. I was thinking about drawing a random sample from all west germans, > containing as many cases as there are east Germans, but with a data set in > sequence format this is not that easy. Of course, I could draw seperate > graphs for both subpopulations and display them in the same size, but this > procedure seems too complicated and not very "fancy". There must be a more > simple solution as graphs of other authors suggest. > > Thanks so much for your help > Best > Sonja, PhD Student > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/