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st: RE: RE: RE: SV: how do I overlay two linkplot graphs?: now trying -xtline-


From   "Spiess, Sven Oliver" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: RE: SV: how do I overlay two linkplot graphs?: now trying -xtline-
Date   Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:09:04 -0500

Doesn't work with the ?-wildcard for me. ("no observations")
I can replace it with the respective 1 or 2 but of course that won't overlay the
graphs.
What am I missing?

-SOS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: RE: SV: how do I overlay two linkplot graphs?: now trying
> -xtline-
> 
> This is a lot clearer. In addition to direct attacks using -twoway-
> explicitly,
> 
> separate Score, by(Task)
> 
> then
> 
> linkplot Score? Character, link(GRP)
> 
> but that would be a mess.
> 
> To get a slide show, assuming prior use of -separate- as above,
> 
> forval i = 1/203 {
> 	linkplot Score? Character if GRP == `i', link(GRP) asyvars
> ///	subtitle(GRP `i')
> 	more
> }
> 
> Nick
> [email protected]
> 
> Stephen Cox
> 
> Hmmm, sorry for my confusing first attempt. After I sent it I realised I
> had not said I had changed my data to long form.
> 
> Here is my data format:
> 
> GRP Task Character Score
> 1       1       1       40
> 1       1       2       44
> 1       1       3       11
> 1       1       4       78
> 1       1       5       38
> 1       2       1       42
> 1       2       2       46
> 1       2       3       17
> 1       2       4       71
> 1       2       5       42
> 2       1       1       40
> 2       1       2       44
> 2       1       3       11
> 2       1       4       78
> 2       1       5       38
> 2       2       1       42
> 2       2       2       46
> 2       2       3       17
> 2       2       4       71
> 2       2       5       42
> Etc
> 
> For each GRP (group), I am wanting to get two line graphs for Score
> against Character, one graph for each Task. And I want all graphs
> overlayed.
> 
> 
> Lets assume I have only the values for Task = 1.
> 
> After defining the dat set to be a panel data using
> 
>  . tsset GRP character
> 
> Then using the following command:
> 
> .xtline score, overlay legend (off)
> 
> I can get a graph for Task = 1 in the form I want.
> 
> 
> But I want to have another graph for Task=2, and have those graphs
> overlayed.
> 
> I am unsure how to do this with -xtline-, as I think I would need two
> 'score' variables, one for each Task, but then I can't use the overlay
> option.
> 
> I am not sure how to do this with -linkplot- (from SSC) either.
> 
> And ultimately I will have to do it all for some different subsets of
> cases as I have 203 GRPs which will be too many too see on one graph,
> but that is another learning task for me.
> 
> 
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