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st: Need separate lines in twoway rcapsym


From   "Wagner, Joseph" <[email protected]>
To   "'STATAList'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Need separate lines in twoway rcapsym
Date   Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:02:24 -0400

I am trying to create a graph of survival time by individual but I keep
getting overlapping lines:

twoway (scatter year hivdate)(rcapsym origin enddate year, jitter)  ///
(scatter year rxdate) 

I wanted to have a series of horizontal lines representing their survival
time (from origin to enddate) with a marker for hivdate and rxdate arrayed
along the y-axis in order by birth (year only).  But I have several subjects
with the same year of birth so I end up with overlapping lines.

I have tried jitter which gives me separate symbols but not separate lines.
Is there a way to separate the lines?  As an alternative, I have used -egen
rank, unique- to create a variable that ranks all subjects uniquely in order
by birth year but I can't figure out how to get my y-axis label to reflect
the appropriate range of years since the range of the rank variable (0-157)
is greater than the age range (1906-1978).

Is there a way to get the y-axis labeled as I wish or is there a better way
to create my graph altogether? 
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