> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Korsholm [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: plot of median bias with CI
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have a simulation study where for each value of mu I have 1000
> estimates. Mu runs from .01 to .31
> The "true" value depends on mu.
> its farly easy to plot the median or any other egen-statstics
> versus mu.
> BUT I would like to plot the median _with_ the associated confidense
> interval from -centile- (anything better?)
>
> With a -foreach x=1/31 {- loop this i possible
> since the values of mu is "nice"
> But can it be done smarter/easier/more general?
>
> my code reads:
>
> gen bias=est-true
> gen double cen=.
> gen double up=.
> gen double do=.
> forvalues x = 1/31 {
> qui centile bias if mu==`x'/100
> replace cen=`r(c_1)' if mu==`x'/100
> replace up=`r(ub_1)' if mu==`x'/100
> replace do=`r(lb_1)' if mu==`x'/100
> }
>
> bysort mu: keep if _n==1
> gr cen up do mu, c(.||) s(x..) sa(gr1, replace)
>
> best lars
If you are looking for a more general way to obtain the values of mu,
consider -vallist-, a utility by Nick Cox which does just this. Or, you
can do it yourself with the tabulate command:
tab mu , matrow(rows)
forvalues x= 1/`r(r)' {
local curmu = rows[`x',1]
qui centile bias if mu==`curmu'
...
}
-Nick Winter
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