st: Re: RE: AW: Axes for graphs

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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For anyone wishing to recreate Tony`s solution

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sysuse auto, clear
su price, mean
g pricecentered=price-r(mean)
twoway (scatter mpg pricecentered), yline(20) xscale(range(-10000 10000)) 
xscale(line) xline(0)
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Probably not the stuff of Philip´s dreams, but still...


HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:10 PM
Subject: st: RE: AW: Axes for graphs


> What about using the axis scale command on the graph two way command?  I 
> centered the price data at its mean and gave the command
> twoway (scatter mpg pricecentered), yline(20) xscale(range(-10000 10000)) 
> xscale(line) xline(0)
> I drew a line at mpg=20 and at x=0.
>
> Tony
>
> Peter A. Lachenbruch
> Department of Public Health
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, OR 97330
> Phone: 541-737-3832
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:54 AM
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> Subject: st: AW: Axes for graphs
>
> <>
>
> Thumping through Mitchell, http://www.stata-press.com/books/vgsg.html
> there is not much of what you want to be seen there, and I am afraid he
> exhausts much of what Stata can do in terms of -graph-s.
> You could look at the advanced examples in -help graph_combine-...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Bromiley,
> Philip
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 19:18
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: st: Axes for graphs
>
> Is there a way to have Stata put the axes in the center of the graph?
> An editor wants the standard blackboard graph that has the y axis going
> up the middle of the page and the x axis across the middle of the page
> with the two meeting at (0,0).
>
> Sort of like this:
>
> Y
>
>     5  |
>     4  |
>     3  |
>     2  |
>     1  |
> ______________________________________  X
> -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 |  1  2  3  4  5  6
>     -2 |
>     -3 |
>     -4 |
>     -5 |
>
>
>
> Phil
>
> Philip Bromiley
> Dean's Professor in Strategy
> Merage School of Business
> University of California, Irvine
> Irvine CA 92697-3125
> (949) 824-6657
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