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Re: st: Multiple density plots, rotated and distributed on x-axis


From   Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Multiple density plots, rotated and distributed on x-axis
Date   Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:06:45 -0400

Venable <[email protected]>:
I love Scott's example, but see also -vioplot- on SSC:
sysuse auto, clear
vioplot mpg, over(foreign)

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Scott Merryman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Like this?
>
> clear
> sysuse auto
> set obs 5000
> kdensity mpg if fore == 0, n(5000) k(gauss) bw(3) gen(h0 d0)
> line d0 h0
> kdensity mpg if fore == 1, n(5000) k(gauss) bw(3) gen(h1 d1)
>
> replace d1 = d1 + .2
>
> tabstat mpg, by(fore) stat(p25 p50 p75) nototal
>
> line h1 d1 || line h0 d0, xtitle("")  xlabel( .02 "Domestic" .22
> "Foreign" ) ///
>  legend(off)  scheme(lean1)   ///
>  || scatteri  24.5 .264   19 .077 , recast(connected) ms(O) lw(thin)  ///
>  || scatteri  21 .255   16.5 .0698 , recast(connected) ms(O) lw(thin) ///
>  || scatteri  28 .2427   22 .0601 , recast(connected) ms(O) lw(thin)
>
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Venable <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> I would like to create a graph that contains several kernel density
>> plots, but with the plot rotated 90% right from the usual orientation,
>> and with each plot aligned to a point on the x axis.
>>
>> To be more concrete (borrowing an example from Angrist and Pischke,
>> Mostly Harmless Econometrics, Figure 3.1.1), suppose I wanted to show
>> the distribution of incomes in the US at different levels of eduction,
>> e.g. 8 years, 12 years, 14, 16, etc. The x-axis of the graph would be
>> years of education and the y axis the level of income.  Above each
>> year, there would be a kernel density plot of incomes for that year,
>> with each rotated to the right, so that the "height" (density) is
>> horizontal distance.
>>
>> An additional bonus would be to be able to mark a few quantiles on
>> each density and connect these between years. For example, mark the
>> 25th, median and 75th percentile for each year and have these points
>> connected.
>>
>> Is this possible in Stata?
>>
>> I fear I may not be explaining this well in words, in spite of the
>> fact that it is very easy to show as a picture. Unfortunately Figure
>> 3.1.1 is not available in the Google Preview version of Mostly
>> Harmless Econometrics, so I have posted a simple hand-drawn version
>> here:
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2937392/density-plot-sketch.pdf

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