Maarten's reference refers to the -eclplot- package (downloadable from
SSC), which produces a wide range of plots of estimates and confidence
limits. And, using -eclplot-, moleps should be able to produce bar
graphs with the upper error bar and no lower error bar. However, moleps
probably should not produce these, as the reader usually also wants to
know the lower limit as well as the upper limit.
Bar graphs with upper error bars and no lower error bars are known as
"detonator plots", because the bars look like detonators. A presentation
on -eclplot-, including some discussion of detonator plots, is given in
Newson (2005), which can be downloaded from the SSC site at
http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/usug05.html
I hope this helps.
Best wishes
Roger
References
Newson R. Generalized confidence interval plots using commands or
dialogs. Presented at the 11th UK Stata User Meeting, 17-18 May, 2005.
Roger B Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
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UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
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Email: [email protected]
Web page: www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
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http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/pop
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten buis
Sent: 18 June 2008 21:22
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: error bars
Have a look at:
R. Newson (2003), "Confidence intervals and p-values for delivery to
the end user", The Stata Journal, 3(3), pp. 245--269.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0043
I actually refered to that earlier (see below)
-- Maarten
--- moleps islon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I' making a double error bar graph- e.g two different variables x and
> y with error bars categorised according to z. I've tried using ciplot
> x y, by(z) however I get a graph with two identical error bars
> (though
> different symbol, but identical values) for each instance of z. Any
> idea how to remedy this? If I need to make bars (a bar graph) for
> each category and then have the positive part of the error bar
> projecting from the top- how do I go about this?
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Standard errors can come from lots of places, including the -ci-
> > command.
> >
> > Moleps seems to be implying that -ci- does the right calculation
> for his
> > or her purposes.
> >
> > (I note that Moleps has yearly results, but -ci- for separate years
> does
> > nothing about any time series structure in the data, for example
> about
> > taking serial correlation into account.)
> >
> > -ciplot- and -stripplot- from SSC both do -ci-type calculations and
> > graphing in one.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Maarten buis
> >
> > --- moleps islon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I need to make a an error-bar graph categorised by year. I've
> tried
> >> using serrbar mean(x) etc, but I cant find a command for the
> standard
> >> error. Do I need to run a CI, generate a new variable from the ci
> >> result and feed that into serrbar?
> >
> > There are many ways of doing this. For instance you can use methods
> > discussed in (Buis 2007) (a convenient estimatation command would
> in
> > this case be -mean-), or you can remember that the standard error
> of
> > the mean is the standard deviation divided by the square root of
> the
> > number of observations, like in the example below:
> >
> > *-------------- begin example -----------------------
> > sysuse nlsw88, clear
> > gen mis = missing(wage, age)
> > bys age: egen mwage = mean(wage)
> > bys age: egen sdwage = sd(wage)
> > bys age mis: gen se = sdwage/sqrt(_N) if mis == 0
> > serrbar mwage se age, scale(1.96)
> > *-------------- end example -------------------------
> >
> > Notice that a fixed scale is slightly problematic here as idealy
> this
> > scale should depend on the number of observations (a t-test), but
> 1.96
> > should work fine in large samples. For a more flexible approach,
> where
> > you can take all this into account see: (Newson 2003)
> >
> > -- maarten
> >
> > M.L. Buis (2007), "Stata tip 54: Where did my p-values go?", The
> Stata
> > Journal, 7(4), pp.584--586.
> > http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/pvalue.html
> >
> > R. Newson (2003), "Confidence intervals and p-values for delivery
> to
> > the end user", The Stata Journal, 3(3), pp. 245--269.
> > http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0043
> >
> >
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