Ada Lo <[email protected]> :
Do you really want 490 separate line graphs overlaid? Perhaps these
examples will be instructive:
clear all
input id m age
1 2 3
1 3 11
2 4 4
2 3 6
3 2 7
3 4 10
4 5 11
end
line m age, c(L) name(line)
egen c=count(m), by(id)
tsset id age
xtline m, ov addplot(sc m age if c==1) leg(off)
clear all
range id 1 490 490
expand 3
bys id:g age=5+_n*4
g m=rnormal(age,age) if uniform()>.3
egen c=count(m), by(id)
line m age, c(L) name(line)
tsset id age
xtline m, ov addplot(sc m age if c==1) leg(off)
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Ada Lo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the first time I'm posting on stata list so please forgive me
> if I'm not doing it right.
>
> I have a question about the graph produced by this command - twoway
> line Memory age, connect(ascending)
> The data are in balanced long format, 3 repeated measurements over 8
> years for roughly 490 participants with missing data.
> I sorted the data by StudyID and age before running the twoway command.
> The graph produced should represent the trajectory of memory changes
> for each individual. However, I noticed that STATA sometimes joined up
> the measurement between individuals when they had missing data.
>
> Does that make sense to people? Is there a way to fix this up so that
> I would see a line or a single dot (if only 1 measurement was
> available) for each individual?
>
> Your help would be much appreciated.
>
> Ada
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