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Re: st: Horizontal time line graph of individual with time events
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Horizontal time line graph of individual with time events
Date
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:59:06 +0000
If I can think of a way of getting the | symbol in the legend, I will post it.
Your other questions are for StataCorp. The new symbol I'd most like
to see personally is a downward-pointing triangle.
Nick
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Jannik Helweg-Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you very much!- just the start I needed- very useful link
>
> Two small follow up questions:
>
> 1. Regarding the non-standard marker "pipe" = "|", which I use to
> indicate start of admission: Is it possible somehow to illustrate
> this marker in the legend at right (see example below- next to "Start
> of fever") ?
>
> I wonder why this marker sign-"|"- is not included as a default marker option?
>
> 2. I had to experiment to get similar sizes of the shallow (msize) and
> solid squares- why are Sh(shallow) and S(solid) not the same size?
>
> To illustrate and for anyone interested, here is a preliminary code
> for a slightly different graph, now including first day with negative
> influenza pcr)
>
> id length admdays pcr1 pcr2 pcr1neg tamistartd tamistopd
> 1 42 2 12 25 27 12 31
> 2 23 3 13 16 21 15 21
> 3 26 5 5 16 19 6 11
> 4 22 10 10 14 . 11 15
> 5 5 0 2 5 . 3 5
> 6 29 1 4 11 . 7 12
> 7 29 1 1 11 . 1 15
> 8 29 7 9 14 17 10 18
> 9 32 4 5 13 . 4 17
>
> label define idlbl ///
> 1 "Immunosuppressed" ///
> 2 "Alcoholic" ///
> 3 "COPD" ///
> 4 "Pregnant" ///
> 5 "Myelomatosis" ///
> 6 "Lymphoma" ///
> 7 "Leukemia" ///
> 8 "HIV" ///
> 9 "Pregnant" ///
>
> label val id idlbl
>
> generate pipe = "|"
>
> twoway spike length id, horizontal || ///
> scatter id admdays,ms(none) mlabpos(0) mlabel(pipe) mlabsize(*2) || ///
> scatter id pcr1,ms(s)mfc(yellow)msize(*3) || ///
> scatter id pcr2, ms(s)mfc(yellow)msize(*3) || ///
> scatter id pcr1neg, ms(Sh) msize(*2.1) || ///
> scatter id tamistartd, ms(0) || ///
> scatter id tamistopd, title("Days since onset of fever")
> ysc(reverse)ms(O) yla(1/9,val ang(h) noticks) ///
> legend(order(2 "Start of fever" 3 "First PCR+" 4 "Last PCR+" 5 "First
> PCR-" 6 "Tamiflu start" 7 "Tamiflu stop" )pos(3) col(1))
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