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Re: st: scatter plot with multiple x-labels
From
Shehzad Ali <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: scatter plot with multiple x-labels
Date
Tue, 29 May 2012 13:00:25 +0100 (BST)
Thanks, Nick. This is very helpful.
Regards
Shehzad
----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 16:02
> Subject: Re: st: scatter plot with multiple x-labels
>
> -devnplot- (SSC) gets you some if not all of the way.
>
> -graph dot- may be the most neglected graph command in official Stata.
> Note that it has a -vertical- option (undocumented though that is, I
> believe).
>
> That said, it is
>
> 1. Very easy to run out of real estate here. Identifiers on three
> different levels?
>
> 2. Often better to plot identifiers so that they read horizontally.
> What may bite here are your patient ids. If they are at all long, they
> may not fit at all on the x axis.
>
> Consider
>
> sysuse auto, clear
>
> graph dot (asis) mpg if foreign, over(make) over(rep78) nofill
>
> graph dot (asis) mpg if foreign, over(make, label(ang(v))) over(rep78)
> nofill vertical
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Shehzad Ali <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have patient outcome scores on ten occasions, and patients are nested
> within health providers. I would like to show this in a scatter plot with scores
> on the y-axis and patient id on the x-axis, which is easy to do. However, I want
> to show that patients are nested within therapists. One potential approach is to
> sort the x-axis of the scatter plot by providers and patients within providers
> and add a second x-label under patient_id to represent therapists (to show
> nesting). I am wondering if anyone can suggest how to do this in Stata or use a
> different approach to represent the heterogeneity in a 3-level data structure
> (occasions nested in patients, and patients nested in providers).
>
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