RE: st: Suppression of scatterpoints and upscaling of fracplots

[Alexander Liddle <alexander.liddle@ndorms.ox.ac.uk>]

Thanks Scott and Phil, they're both really neat solutions and both work very nicely - I've got a great-looking graph now.

Thanks again,

Alex.


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Merryman
Sent: 08 March 2013 21:31
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Suppression of scatterpoints and upscaling of fracplots

You could edit out the -scatter- command (line numbers 113 to 122), change the program define statement  and save the file as fracplot2.ado

Scott

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alexander Liddle <alexander.liddle@ndorms.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm afraid it's another Stata graphics question - this may all be very simple but I would appreciate any advice you might have.
>
> I am doing a survival study and the effect of my predictor on the survival hazard is non-linear. As a result, I'm looking at fractional polynomials using fracpoly and plotting them using fracplot:
>
> fracpoly: stcox var1 var2 var3
> fracplot
>
> This gives me a nice fractional polynomial with scatters above and below it. I am particularly interested in the curve itself, and so suppress the markers by doing:
>
> fracplot, msymbol(i)
>
> Obviously this just removes the markers but the scatters are still there 'in spirit' and can be made visible using graph editor. What I would like to do is suppress them entirely and so allow the axes to shorten to just include the fractional polynomial curve - giving a similar appearance to the twoway graph fpfitci.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alex Liddle
>
>
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