On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:22:44 -0000, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fredrik Wallenberg
>
> > A) Use a scatterplot but use the area of each coordinate dot to
> > illustrate how many observations there are for that combination. The
> > best I've done to date is using matrix and scatter, but that doesn't
> > quite do it.
> >
> > graph matrix q3_3_4 q3_3_3, half jitter(3) msize(tiny)
>
> > ... I can see how I could do A by creating a variable that had,
> > as the weight, the total count for each combination and then us that
> > as the aweight. Is there a nicer way?
>
> As you say you could -- and should -- create a weight.
>
> bysort q3_3_4 q_3_3 : gen N = _N
> egen tag =tag(q_3_3_4 q_3_3)
> scatter q_3_4 q_3_3 [w = N] if tag
>
So I've gone down this lane but still run into problems. Essentially I
want a matrix scatterplot with the weights. That is not an option
since the weight would be different for each graph. Instead I decided
to create each graph separately and then use combine. I now run into
one major issue... how do I control aspect ratio? xscale() yscale()
scales the whole graph, but I only have axes and labels on the outside
graphs (to try to recreate the look of the matrix graph). What I need
is a way to control the size of the plotarea (to ensure that all
graphs have the same plot area and that they are square. How do I do
this? If I can't, can anyone suggest an alternative visualization.
My second question ... in my code I'm looping over a set of variables
twice (to create the matrix. With 6 variables I would like to loop
over the first set from 1-5 and second from 2-6. The latter is easily
accomplished by using `ferest()' as the varlist. However that assumes
that my first set is 1-6 and I then have to hardcode an "escape" when
I reach the last element. Would there be a way to test if I've reached
the last element? For example, can I test if `ferest()' is empty? What
I would like to do is to create a more generic solution that I could
just pass a set of variables as an argument.
For the curious I'm including my code (where each variable is a
question answered on a 1-6 Likert scale).
global likert 1 "Disgaree Strongly" 2 "Disagree" 3 "Neutral" ///
4 "Agree" 5 "Agree Strongly" 6 "Don't Know"
foreach var1 of varlist q3_3_1 q3_3_2 q3_3_3 q3_3_4 q3_3_5 q3_3_6 {
if "`var1'" == "q3_3_1" {
global xaxis "xlabel($likert, alternate) xscale(alt)"
}
else {
global xaxis "xscale(off)"
}
if "`var1'" != "q3_3_6" {
foreach var2 of varlist `ferest()' {
preserve
collapse (count) q3_4_1, by(`var1' `var2')
if "`var2'" == "q3_3_6" {
global yaxis "ylabel($likert, angle(horizontal)) yscale(alt)"
}
else {
global yaxis "yscale(off)"
display "$yaxis"
}
twoway (scatter `var1' `var2' , ///
msymbol(circle_hollow) msize(vsmall)[w= q3_4_1 ]), ///
ysize(4) xsize(4) plotregion(margin(large)) ///
$yaxis ///
$xaxis ///
yline(3, lwidth(vthin)) ///
xline(3, lwidth(vvvthin)) name("`var1'x`var2'", replace) ///
graphregion(lwidth(vvthin))
restore
}
}
}
graph combine ///
q3_3_1xq3_3_2 q3_3_1xq3_3_3 q3_3_1xq3_3_4 q3_3_1xq3_3_5 q3_3_1xq3_3_6 ///
q3_3_2xq3_3_3 q3_3_2xq3_3_4 q3_3_2xq3_3_5 q3_3_2xq3_3_6 ///
q3_3_3xq3_3_4 q3_3_3xq3_3_5 q3_3_3xq3_3_6 ///
q3_3_4xq3_3_5 q3_3_4xq3_3_6 ///
q3_3_5xq3_3_6 ///
, cols(5) holes (6 11 12 16 17 18 21 22 23 24) ///
ycommon xcommon imargin(0 0 0 0)
Fredrik
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