Re: st: Plotting string variables with sencode

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 12:05 06/10/2005, Joanna wrote:
> Thank you very much Roger that does help tremendously.  I wonder if you or 
> anyone else may also be able to help me with another graphical problem I'm 
> having?
>
> I would like to truncate these plots (either the ecl or rcap plots) so 
> that I can 'magnify' the area where the very small (at present invisible!) 
> confidence intervals are.  Some of the upper and lower intervals will be 
> outside of the range that I would like, however the estimates would still 
> fall into the new shorter range.  I know of the truncate option that can 
> be applied to version 7 metagraph but eclplot (and rcap) doesn't allow 
> it.  Does anyone know a way of doing this please?
You can use -replace- before -eclplot- or -rcap-, as in

local cimax=200
replace max95=`cimax' if max95>`cimax' & !missing(max95)
eclplot estimate min95 max95 study, hori

However, I am wondering if what you really need is a log scale for the 
confidence intervals. The -xscale()- and -yscale()- options both have a 
-log- suboption to allow this. To produce a sensible set of labels on a log 
axis, you might like to use my program -logaxis-, which is part of the 
package -regaxis-, downloadable from SSC.

I hope this helps.

Roger



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