I apologize for my mistake. It's most certainly 30. I blame it on putting
.3 tablespoons of coffee into the machine this morning instead of the
usual 3.
DVM
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Nick Cox wrote:
> A gradient of .3 doesn't give you a 30 degree line.
>
> Setting aside any question of aspect ratio, a gradient
> of .3 corresponds to about 17 degrees.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dimitriy V.
> > Masterov
> > Sent: 07 March 2004 16:35
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: st: superimpose 45 degree line in -scatter-
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > For adding lines, my quick and dirty solution is to plot x
> > against x and
> > not label the line, using twoway command. This will give you
> > a 45 line.
> > You can define some variables to give you any slope you want.
> > For example,
> > if you wanted a 30 line.
> >
> > gen h=_n;
> > gen v=.3*x;
> >
> > Here is the command:
> >
> > twoway (scatter y x, sort) (line v x), legend(off);
> >
> > Perhaps there is a more elegant way.
> >
> > DVM
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Statalisters,
> > >
> > > I'm using Stata 8 and I would like to know whether and how
> > it is possible to
> > > superimpose a 45 degree line, a 30 degree line, etc over a
> > -scatter- graph.
> > >
> > > Further, does Stata support graphs in polar coordinate
> > planes? Or did someone
> > > wrote something on this?
> > >
> > > many thanks in advance,
> > > Dimitris Christodoulou
> > >
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