Re: st: Plotting stored estimates

[Sara Mottram <s.mottram@cphc.keele.ac.uk>]

Thank you to Roger, Scott and Nick for their very helpful suggestions on 
how to go about doing this. I can now produce the graphs, and I have 
learnt a few new things about Stata too!
Thanks again
Sara

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.
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/