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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: How to change scale of yaxis from proportion with lots of decimals to per 100000 |
Date | Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:29:28 +0000 |
-y1label()- is I think syntax of your own invention. -by()- here is an option, not a statement. Otherwise I think you are right in implying that insisting on particular y axis labels clashes with a -rescale- suboption. I fear that you need to define graphs individually and then -graph combine-. Nick On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:38 PM, roland andersson <rolandersson@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick > I have tried no 3 method. I still have problems. I have made a twoway > graph with a by statement which produces 4 graphs with different > yscales - no1 is from 0.00005 to 0.00015, no2 is from 0.0005 to > 0.0025, no 3 is from 0.01 to 0.04 and no4 from 0.01 to 0.1. I want to > multiply all by 100,000. > I have individual data for about 2,000,000 infants and want to use the > original dataset. I tried the following command > > twoway fpfitci nec ar, by( pmatur, rescale legend(off) > l1title("Incidence rate per 100,000 live births")) xlabel(1985 1990 > 1995 2000 2005 2010) ylabel(0.00005 "5" 0.0001 "10" 0.00015 "15") > > gives the correct result for one of the graphs. I tried the following > > twoway fpfitci nec ar, by( pmatur, rescale legend(off) > l1title("Incidence rate per 100,000 live births") y1label(0.00005 "5" > 0.0001 "10" 0.00015 "15") ) xlabel(1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010) > > but got error message that y1label was not allowed. > > How can I make different ylabels for each graph? > > Roland > > > > 2012/11/16 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>: >> There are various possible solutions. >> >> 1. -replace- the variable with itself multiplied by 100000. >> >> 2. -clonevar- the variable ditto. >> >> In either case, you will need to change the variable label if you are >> like me and put units of measurement in variable labels. >> >> 3. Stata will accept e.g. -ylabel(42 "foobar")- and so -ylabel(1 >> "100,000")- etc. >> >> 4. A helper command for #3 is -mylabels- (SSC). >> >> The principles here apply to nonlinear re-scales too. See >> >> SJ-8-1 gr0032 . . . . . . . Stata tip 59: Plotting on any transformed scale >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox >> Q1/08 SJ 8(1):142--145 (no commands) >> tip on how to graph data on a transformed scale >> >> Accessible to all at http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr0032 >> >> Nick >> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM, roland andersson >> <rolandersson@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I want to make twoway graphs of the trend over time of the incidence >>> rate of a rare disease by four groups where this disease varies >>> strongly. In one group the disease has changed from 5 to 10 per >>> 100,000 live births, in another from 5000 to 10,000 per 100,000 live >>> births. >>> I want to do the graphs by(groups). My problem is that the yscale >>> shows the proportion with lots of decimals, eg 0.00005. I want to >>> multiply the yscale with 100,000 so that it shows the number per >>> 100,000 live births instead of the proportion with decimals. How can I >>> do it? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/