--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Miranda Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have three variables that hold coefficients for
> polynomials (such that each row contains three coefficients
> for a simple polynomial y=a+bx+cx^2). I want to draw all
> polynomials (10 rows) on the same graph.
>
> Then (if possible) I have three variables that hold three
> points that lie on the graph (each row contains three points
> that lie on the polynomial that is defined by the
> coefficients on that row), I’d like to plot these too (on
> the same graph).
Does this solve your first question?
*-------------- begin example -------------------
input a b c
1 2 3
2 3 4
end
twoway function y = a[1] + b[1]*x + c[1]*x^2, ///
range(-3 3) || ///
function y = a[2] + b[2]*x + c[2]*x^2, ///
range(-3 3)
*---------------- end example -------------------
I don't understand the data structure involved in
your second question: a point on that curve should
be defined by two values: and x coordinate and a
y coordinate. If you have those you can use
-scatter- as an overlay plot within the example
I gave above. You could also consider the
-xline()- or -yline()- options.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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