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RE: st: Transposing dotplot (changing axes)


From   Fredrik Norström <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Transposing dotplot (changing axes)
Date   Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:31:38 +0200

Thanks for the dataset.

It worked perfectly well with auto but not with my own dataset. I have one variable with 4 agegroups of same format as rep78 which 5 have groups and I have a variable with integers ranging from -15 to 15. When I try this command "stripplot mpg, over(rep78) stack h(0.5)" (I even renamed by variables to same name and tested) it will still give stack all observations at same point despite working perfectly when using the autodata. I am very puzzled that things are not working as I tried over and over again.

Have you ever heard of a similar problem? Could it be a strange bug with the stripplot command or am I missing out on something very obvious?

Regards,

Fredrik

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: den 30 augusti 2011 12:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Transposing dotplot (changing axes)

Not so. -stack- shows as many data points as observations, tied or
not, so long as you have enough space to show them.

As the help says

"stack specifies that data points with identical values are to be stacked,
        as in -dotplot-, except that by default there is no binning of data."

Look at

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. stripplot mpg, stack

. stripplot mpg, stack over(foreign)



Nick


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Fredrik Norström
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for responses.
>
> I have multiple observations at time points, e.g. three persons who are in oldest age group with 10 years difference. By default I only get one point when I want three points. How do I solve this? Dotplot automatically gives three horizontal points when multiples. I would like to have three vertical dots to show that I got three multiple observations. As far I understand will width and stack only compress to one observation and not extend to three observations or I understand things incorrectly?
>
> Fredrik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: den 30 augusti 2011 11:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Transposing dotplot (changing axes)
>
> Maarten is correct. You can use -stripplot- to get horizontal
> analogues of -dotplot-. The horizontal comes by default; you will need
> to spell out -stack- and you may need to control bin width using
> -width()-.
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fredrik Norström
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have done a dotplot (dotplot yeardifference, over(agegroups) center) where I have agegroups and for each displayed difference in years between two disease diagnoses. My dotplot shows years on y-axes. I want to have that on x-axis, i.e. I want to transpose my dotplot. Is it possible to do that or can I generate a different stata graph so that I get my dotplots horizontally instead of vertically?
>>
>> That should be possible with Nick Cox's -stripplot-, which you can get
>> by typing in Stata -ssc install stripplot-.
>>
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