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RE: st: RE: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: RE: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs
Date
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:15:09 +0000
Of course, it is likely to be a mess! For n up to 25, using separate graphs and -graph combine- can be as good or better. Depends...
Nick
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Robert Angus
Sent: 09 November 2011 11:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs
Nick & Antoine,
That's exactly what I needed,
Thanks,
Colin
Nick Cox said the following on 09/11/2011 10:58:
> It's a loop:
>
> local n = whatever
>
> forval i = 1/`n' {
> local call `call' (line freq`i' sample`i', sort)
> }
>
> twoway `call'
>
> You might to suppress the -legend()-.
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Robert Angus
> Sent: 09 November 2011 10:48
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am writing a do file to take n random samplings from a distribution,
> for a user-inputted value of n.
> This file creates variables labelled sample`i' and freq`i' for each
> value of i between 1 and n.
> I would like to draw a single line graph with all of the plots of
> sample`i' against freq`i' overlaid on it.
> So something like:
> twoway (line freq1 sample1, sort) (line freq2 sample2, sort)...(line
> freqn samplen, sort)
> But I can't see how to write this without knowing the value of n
> beforehand, and then, if n is large, writing an incredibly long command.
> Is there a way to do this within Stata?
>
>
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