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Re: st: Connecting Data Points with Lines
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Jielu Lin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Connecting Data Points with Lines
Date
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:09:51 -0400
Nick Cox just advised me to use "xtline" and this solves my problem.
If I do tsset and then line, the problem is still there. I'm working
on a small dataset--don't know if this is a problem of my data.
Jielu Lin
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jielu Lin <[email protected]> :
> Can you
> tsset id age
> before graphing?
>
> Can you show an example of the problem using publicly available data?
>
> clear all
> webuse grunfeld
> qui xtmixed mvalue time||company:time, mle cov(un)
> predict y_fitted, fitted
> g c=inrange(company,1,2)
> sort c
> line y_fitted time, connect(L) name(wrong)
> tsset
> line y_fitted time, connect(L)
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Jielu Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm modeling age-graded trajectories. Each individual case in my data
>> has 4 repeated observations. Then I tried to graph estimated
>> individual trajectories. Each individual should have a separate
>> trajectory which is not connected to another individual trajectory. In
>> the actual graph, within a person, the 4 estimated data points were
>> correctly connected. However, some trajectories were connected even
>> though these observations did not belong to the same person. This
>> happened to some cases, but not all of them. I've been for patterns of
>> these odd connections but so far it seems random.
>>
>> I used the following codes:
>>
>> xtmixed y age ||id: age, mle cov(un)
>> predict y_fitted, fitted
>> twoway line y_fitted age, connect(ascending)
>>
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