FWIW,
Tufte's dot-dash-plot ("The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" page
133) could be created as:
sysuse auto,clear
gen wherex = 11
gen wherey = 3000
gen pipe = "|"
twoway scatter mpg price , msize(small) || ///
scatter wherex price, ms(none) mlab(pipe) mlabcolor(black) ///
mlabpos(0) || ///
scatter mpg wherey , ms(none) mlab(pipe) mlabang(vertical) ///
mlabcolor(black) mlabpos(0) || , ///
legend(off) yscale(noline) ylabel(none) xscale(noline) ///
xlabel(none) xtitle(Price)
Where the idea of -gen pipe = "|".... - is taken from Nick Cox's "Speaking
Stata: Graphing distributions" Stata Journal 4(1)
Scott
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