This is a good idea for Stata 8 up, but won't work in Stata 7, which is
what Achille has.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Winter
How about something like this? you would need to choose the value of
-top- to be the right height, which might require some experimentation.
And you might want to add options to the -pcspike- plots to set the
line color, etc.
. gen zero = 0
. gen top = 0.05
. graph twoway histogram stat || pcspike zero lower_es top lower_es ||
pcspike zero upper_es top upper_es , by(grp)
Nick Cox wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is possible to say why this doesn't work. When Stata
sees any references to local macros in commands, it substitutes them
immediately with their contents and then tries to execute the command.
That applies too to references of form
> `= <some calculation>'. In short, that is done once only. Thus there
is no way that what you want will be done separately according to the
distinct values of a variable specified in a -by()- option.
>
> Nor can I think of a neat way to do this in Stata 7, or even Stata 10.
I guess you need to produce individual graphs, and then combine them.
-forval- or -foreach- would help.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Achille M. Luongo
>
> I would like to draw a histogram with two vertical lines showing
> upper and lower estimates of a statistic for two (or more) groups
using
> the graph command of Stata 7.0.
>
> This is a snippet of the
> example dataset:
> grp
> stat
> lower_es
> upper_es
> 1
> 91
> 43.45387
> 60.79625
> 1
> 60
> 43.45387
> 60.79625
> 1
> 87
> 43.45387
> 60.79625
> 1
> 52
> 43.45387
> 60.79625
> [..removed..]
> 2
> 100
> 79.70421
> 124.2349
> 2
> 60
> 79.70421
> 124.2349
> 2
> 77
> 79.70421
> 124.2349
> 2
> 125
> 79.70421
> 124.2349
> [..removed..]
>
> I have already read the existing
> post at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-08/msg00282.html
about
> a similar topic.
>
> Nevertheless, I can’t figure out how to
> draw upper and lower estimates with ‘xline()’ option when
the
> ‘graph’ command is combined with the ‘by’
option
> like that:
>
> graph stat, by(grp)
> xline(`=lower_es[_n]' `= upper_es[_n]')
>
> In fact, the graph
> command always draw vertical lines in the same position in all the
> histograms combined with the by option (I suppose it always draws
> lower_es[1] and upper_es[1]).
>
> I considered the possibility to
> create histograms using the ‘by’ clausole like that:
>
> by grp: graph stat, xline(`=lb[_n]' `=ub[_n]') xlab(0
> 20 to 140)
>
> but I obtained the the same previous result.
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