st: New version of -eclplot- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the -eclplot- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -eclplot-.

The -eclplot- package is described as below on my website, and produces 
plots of estimates with confidence limits. The new version adds an 
option -baddplot()-, which is like the -addplot()- option, except that 
the additional plot specified is in the background (behind the extimates 
and confidence limits). So, if the user programs:

sysuse auto, clear;
collapse (min) min=weight (p25) p25=weight (p50) p50=weight (p75) 
p75=weight (max) max=weight
  if !missing(rep78),
  by(rep78);
eclplot p50 p25 p75 rep78, hori eplottype(scatter) rplottype(rbar)
  estopts(msize(4)) ciopts(barwidth(0.75))
  ylab(1(1)5)
  xtitle("Weight (minimum, maximum and percentiles 25, 50 and 75)")
  baddplot(rspike min max rep78, hori)
  ;

then -eclplot- will produce a quasi-confidence-interval plot, with the 
50th percentiles as "estimates" and the 25th and 75th percentiles as 
"confidence limits", and with spikes in the background (behind the 
"confidence intervals"), recording the minimum and maximum.

The new -eclplot- also fixes an old issue, where the SSC version of 
-eclplot- had the old Stata Version 9 on-line help file -eclplot.hlp-, 
instead of the up-to-date Stata Version 10 on-line help file 
-eclplot.sthlp-, documenting the -addplot()- and -baddplot()- options. 
However, the old Stata Version 8 -plot()- option still works for -eclplot-.

Best wishes (and Happy New Year)

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
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package eclplot from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      eclplot: Horizontal and vertical confidence interval plots

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      eclplot creates a plot of estimates with lower and upper 
confidence limits
      on one axis against another numeric variable on the other axis. 
The estimates
      and lower and upper confidence limits are stored in three 
variables, in a
      data set with one observation per confidence interval to be 
plotted. Data
      sets with such variables may be created manually (using a 
spreadsheet),
      or using the parmest package, or using statsby or postfile in 
official Stata.
      The user has a choice of plotting the confidence intervals 
horizontally or
      vertically, a choice of plot styles for the estimates, and a 
choice of range
      plot styles for the confidence intervals. It is also possible to 
overlay
      the confidence interval plot with other plots using the plot() 
option,
      and to overlay multiple superimposed confidence interval plots 
using the
      supby() option. eclplot may be used either as a command or 
through a dialog.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 03january2012
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      eclplot.ado
      eclplot.sthlp
      eclplot.dlg
      eclplot_98s.dlg
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