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One detail is not right. Stata is not
ignoring your rules: it is taking them literally.
The Third Law of Stata applies: your punishment
is that you got what you asked for.
The diagnosis about the call being the wrong
round is still the same.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
> Your call is the wrong way round. You want (e.g.)
> the text "25" at 0.25. Stata's ignoring your label
> rules as irrelevant to the data you have. Start with
>
> mylabels 0(25)100, myscale(@/100) local(label100)
>
> Think "my graph labels that I want are 0(25)100, but
> my data scale is that of the labels divided by 100".
>
> I invented this beast, but I make the same mistake
> too some fraction of the time.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Clive Nicholas
>
> > Nick Winter will forgive me if I don't report back on his
> > solution just
> > yet, for I'm having problems implementing Nick Cox's
> > -mylabels- solution.
> >
> > . mylabels 0(.25)1, myscale(100 * @) local(label100)
> > 0 "0" 25 ".25" 50 ".5" 75 ".75" 100 "1"
> >
> > . myticks 0(.25)1, myscale(100 * @) local(ticks100)
> > 0 25 50 75 100
> >
> > . twoway line beconch belabch beldmch quarter, xtitle("") ylabel
> > (`label100', angle(0)) xlabel(1 "Q1" 2 "Q2" 3 "Q3" 4 "Q4")
> > scheme(s1mono)
> > ymtic(`ticks100')
> >
> > The -be*- variables are normalized (0-1) continuous
> > variables; -quarter-
> > does what it says on the tin. I'm not allowed to show you the
> > resulting
> > graph, but I can tell you that:
> >
> > (1) I get a single flatline along the bottom of the graph
> > when I should be
> > seeing large zig-zag patterns; and
> >
> > (2) the labels don't display in any case: I still get (0
> .25 .5 .75 1)
> > instead of (0 25 50 75 100).
> >
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