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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Thread-Index: Ac049lzDw8LzBnUBQd+6mSCfgPrdJg== |
| Date | Thu, 24 May 2012 15:25:48 +0100 |
Also Austin's [pw=finalwgt] makes sense for his example. It will make no sense for yours. Omit it. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: > Also you assign the graphs names e1, e2, e3 and then act as if those > names were really Sweden, NA, Iran. That won't work. > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: >> Your syntax like >> >> `: lab Sweden' >> >> is illegal as a way of looking up value labels and not analogous to >> Austin's example. See -help extended fcn-. >> >> There are two main syntaxes >> >> `: valuelabelname #' >> >> `: (varname) #' >> >> and yours is neither. >> >> You could just say (e.g.) >> >> title(Sweden) >> >> if that is what you want. >> >> For the rest, try the sections in [U] on local macros and weights. >> >> Nick >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Amal Khanolkar <Amal.Khanolkar@ki.se> wrote: >>> Dear Austin, >>> >>> Based on the code you suggested, I have the following: >>> >>> loc c vioplot bw [pw=finalwgt] >>> `c' if motherland3==1, ti(`:lab Sweden') den(col(blue)) name(e1) >>> `c' if motherland3==2, ti(`:lab NA') den(col(green)) name(e2) ysc(off) >>> `c' if motherland3==3, ti(`:lab Iran') den(col(edkblue)) name(e3) ysc(off) >>> gr combine Sweden NA Iran, nocop ycommon row(1) name(vio) >>> byhist bw, by(motherland3) frac tw(leg(col(1))) >>> >>> >>> - where bw is the continous outcome whose distributions I would like to produce by the categorical variable motherland3 which has 10 categories. >>> >>> - I've just wirtten the lines for the first 3 categories of the motherland3 variable above. >>> >>> -However I keep getting a error message that the line 'c' if motherland3==1....' is invalid syntax. Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what exactly the 'c' signifies? >>> >>> I also want to know what the (pw=finalwgt) does. * * 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/