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st: Plotting stored estimates
Apologises if this is a basic question.
I have a binary variable kcons which indicates whether or not the person
has consulted their doctor about knee pain and another variable age_cat,
indicating the age group to which the person belongs.
I have calculated the mean of kcons within each level of age_cat using
-mean- with the -over()-, option to get the probability of consulting
with knee pain in each age group. I have then saved these estimates
using -estimates store-.
I would now like to produce a scatter plot the proportion of people who
consult in each category against age_cat to assess whether there is a trend.
This sounds like it should be straightforward but I can't work out from
the manuals (I have looked under _estimates in the programming manual)
and I can't find anything in the FAQs about how to do this. If I try
scatter _est age_cat, I get a flat plot. I could of course produce a
plot in Excel by typing in the results of -mean-, but I feel that this
is probably an important feature that I should learn to use properly?
I have included my code and out put below.
Sara
. mean kcons, over(age_cat)
Mean estimation Number of obs = 742
_subpop_1: age_cat = 50-54
_subpop_2: age_cat = 55-59
_subpop_3: age_cat = 60-64
_subpop_4: age_cat = 65-69
_subpop_5: age_cat = 70-74
_subpop_6: age_cat = 75-79
_subpop_7: age_cat = 80+
--------------------------------------------------------------
Over | Mean Std. Err. [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+------------------------------------------------
kcons_p18m |
_subpop_1 | .2911392 .0514379 .1901578 .3921207
_subpop_2 | .2205882 .0356868 .1505289 .2906475
_subpop_3 | .221374 .036413 .1498892 .2928589
_subpop_4 | .3164557 .0371185 .2435858 .3893256
_subpop_5 | .2605042 .0404049 .1811825 .3398259
_subpop_6 | .3766234 .0555805 .2675095 .4857373
_subpop_7 | .4047619 .0766573 .2542706 .5552532
--------------------------------------------------------------
. estimates store propnknee
. plot _est age_cat
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