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st: RE: Xtgraph without error bars
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: Xtgraph without error bars
Date
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:08:00 +0000
-xtgraph- is from SSC.
You can plot geometric means directly without needing any add-ons:
sysuse auto
egen gmean = mean(log(mpg)), by(foreign)
replace gmean = exp(gmean)
scatter gmean foreign
There is no trick needed. If you don't want bars, don't plot them.
Nick
[email protected]
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I found a link from 2002 to a Statalist msg asking the same thing as I want to ask, where the anwser was that there was a bug with the add-on itself (http://stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-10/msg00629.html).
I'm trying to graph geometric means through time by group: - xtgraph ta, group(failure_type) av(gm) -
which works fine. But it always adds confidence intervals as a default, even when I add the option - bar(no)- (which is meant to be the right option).
Error bars often take a lot of space on the graphs and reduces visibility as well as "collapsing" a bit all the lines together.
If you have a solution it'd be great, I wonder if the bug within the xtgraph add-on has been corrected in any way, or if a "trick" has been found not to have the error bars.
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