One way would be to save the life table and then use -twoway connect- with
the line patterns you want.
For example:
tempfile rats
use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r9/rat.dta,clear
ltable t d, by(gr) over saving(`rats') notable
use `rats',clear
twoway connect sur t1 if gr == 1 , lc(gs1) lp(dash) mcolor(gs1) ///
|| conn sur t1 if gr == 2, lc(gs12) mcolor(gs12)
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Joseph
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 6:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Life Tables for Survival Analysis
>
> Dear All
>
> I am new to Stata. I am using Stata 9 to try to draw a Life Table graph
> for
> a variable with 6 categories. The 6 slopes on the graph are shown by
> different, smooth, coloured lines which is great but I am not printing in
> colour.
>
> I have tried the symbol command so that each line will be identified by a
> different symbol (i.e. dash, dot, long dash and dot etc). However only
> the
> first symbol is recognised when I run the graph so I either have all lines
> with a dash, or all lines with a dot for all six categories.
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