The beginning of my message appears to have been cut.
FWIW: with -pairplot- one could graph the overlap in event dates.
clear
input event start end
1 16081 16108
2 16081 16109
3 16084 16092
4 16091 16143
5 16100 16105
6 16109 16143
7 16110 16110
end
pairplot start end, horiz xtitle(Event Date) ytitle(Events) ///
lc(blue) lw(medthick) ms(O) y2(ms(T))
Scott
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