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Re: st: serrbar command


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: serrbar command
Date   Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:23:03 +0100

If that were my problem, I wouldn't use -serrbar- at all. You could
use marker labels, but there would no guarantees about readability or
friendliness of display.

This example shows some technique. I used some real data, but faked
standard errors. -labmask- is from SJ and must be installed first. See
my 2008 article for much more. It doesn't touch on your precise kind
of graph, but otherwise I think it is pertinent. It's free as a .pdf
at

http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr0034

sysuse lifeexp, clear
l country in 1/10
gen upper = lexp + 2.4
gen lower = lexp - 2.4
gen axis = _n
labmask axis, values(country)

* next 3 lines are all one command: omit /// interactively
scatter axis lexp in 1/10 || ///
rcap lower upper axis in 1/10, horizontal yla(1/10, noticks valuelabel
ang(h)) ///
ysc(reverse) ytitle("") legend(off) xtitle(`: var label lexp')

Disclaimers:

1. The example graph uses alphabetical ordering by countries, which is
not usually a good idea. It's usually better to choose another order,
e.g. to -sort- by means first.

2. I'm the putative author of -serrbar-, because I rewrote it many
years ago, but it's not nearly versatile enough to do well what you
are likely to want. I feel no conflict of interest in diverting you
away from a command not much use to you really.
Nick
[email protected]


On 27 April 2013 17:44, Fatma Romeh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist,
>
> I want to graph standard error using the command "serrbar". I have ten countries with an average and ten standard errors. My question is how can I put the country names on the graph?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Fatma,
>
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