Re: st: Graphing Histograms and Overlaying A Vertical Line

["Dimitriy V. Masterov" <dvmaster@gmail.com>]

Erika,

Try something like this with xline():

sysuse auto, clear
sum price, detail
tw (hist price) (scatteri 0 `r(mean)' (0) "Avg." 0 `r(p50)' (0)
"Med.", ms(none) mlabsize(small)), xline(`r(mean)' `r(p50)')
legend(off)


You can remove the scatteri part if you don't want the lines labeled.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to graph a histogram, overlaying vertical lines
> showing the mean and median. I know that the xline option won't get me
> what I want, so I went the twoway route. What I'm trying to figure out
> is how to get the range for "function" to match what's used for twoway
> histogram.
>
> summarize height
> twoway histogram height, percent || function y=`r(mean)', range(? ?)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> Erika
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