Thanks, Nick. Looks like a very useful approach.
Eric
>Suppose you work out that the company in
>question is the 42nd observation.
>
>Then the option could be
>
>yline(`=ret2001Q2[42]')
>
>Suppose you are cycling over several
>variables. You can still use the same idea:
>
>foreach v of var <whatever> {
> quantile `v', recast(line) rlopts(lwidth(medthick)) ///
> ylabel(-.06 (.01) .06, ang(h)) yline(`=`v'[42]') ///
> xlabel(0 .1 .2 .25 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .75 .8 .9 1) ///
> xline(0 .1 .2 .25 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .75 .8 .9 1, lcolor(bluishgray))
>}
>
>What you are relying on here is that -quantile- does not
>(permanently) affect the sort order of the data.
>
>Nick
>[email protected]
>
>Eric G. Wruck
>
>> I am generating a series of quantile plots of quarterly returns but
>> would like to flag one company (out of 150 or so that comprise the
>> data). I found one way of doing this, using yline after manually
>> looking up that company's value for the quarter in question. For
>> example,
>>
>> quantile ret2001Q2, recast(line) rlopts(lwidth(medthick)) ylabel(-.06
>> (.01) .06, angle(horizontal)) yline(0.011) xlabel(0 .1 .2 .25 .3 .4
>> .5 .6 .7 .75 .8 .9 1) xline(0 .1 .2 .25 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .75 .8 .9 1,
>> lcolor(bluishgray))
>>
>> Here I looked up the 2001, 2nd quarter return for the company in
>> question & saw that its return was 0.011 -- hence, yline(0.011).
>>
>> My question is: is there a way to pass something to yline from the
>> data so that this doesn't have to be a manual operation (& hence
>> susceptible to error)?
>
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