Stata, like any other computer program, does what you tell it to do,
not what you want it to do, and for good reason: How is Stata supposed
to know which states you want to group together?
So, first decide which states you want grouped together in one plot,
than create a variable such that all the state you want to group
together get the same value, call this variable group, than the syntax
provided by Nick will do what you want.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
--- Patricia Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Nick:
> Thank you very much for responding.
> I have already tried the syntax you recommended.
> . scatter y x, by(group)
> My problem is below:
> My group is "state."
> I have a dataset which contains 50 states; therefore, I had 50 state
> scatter
> plots in one graphic when I use this syntax.
> Now, I want to only have 10 state scatter plots in one graphic and I
> will
> have five graphics containing all 50 states in the U.S.
> How can I do 10 state scatter plots in one graphic from my 50 state
> dataset?
> Thank you.
> -Patricia
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 1:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Graphics
>
> Dear Patricia:
>
> Please do not send HTML to the list, just plain text.
>
> You say you have a problem, but you do not say what the problem is,
> for example in terms of code you tried that did not do what you
> wanted.
>
> Let me guess that you have 10 groups of states indicated in
> a variable -group-.
>
> . scatter y x, by(group)
>
> is then one possibility.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Patricia Yu
>
> When I use Stata syntax to run graphics, I encountered a problem.
> I have data for 50 states in the U.S.
> I want to create five graphics. Each graphic contains 10 state
> two-way
> scatter plots.
>
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