Re: st: RE: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs

[Colin Robert Angus <C.R.Angus@sheffield.ac.uk>]

Nick & Antoine,

That's exactly what I needed,

Thanks,

Colin

Nick Cox said the following on 09/11/2011 10:58:
> It's a loop:
>
> local n = whatever 
>
> forval i = 1/`n' { 
> 	local call `call' (line freq`i' sample`i', sort)  
> } 
>
> twoway `call'
>
> You might to suppress the -legend()-. 
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Robert Angus
> Sent: 09 November 2011 10:48
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> Subject: st: Overlaying an unknown number of line graphs
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am writing a do file to take n random samplings from a distribution, 
> for a user-inputted value of n.
> This file creates variables labelled sample`i' and freq`i' for each 
> value of i between 1 and n.
> I would like to draw a single line graph with all of the plots of 
> sample`i' against freq`i' overlaid on it.
> So something like:
> twoway (line freq1 sample1, sort) (line freq2 sample2, sort)...(line 
> freqn samplen, sort)
> But I can't see how to write this without knowing the value of n 
> beforehand, and then, if n is large, writing an incredibly long command.
> Is there a way to do this within Stata?
>
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