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Re: st: RE: quick question about -concord-
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Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: quick question about -concord-
Date
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:07:18 -0800 (PST)
Thank you Nick, and I am sorry that I did not give you and Dr. Steichen credit for this very nice program.
Regards,
Ricardo
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Fri, 1/13/12, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: RE: quick question about -concord-
> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, January 13, 2012, 12:14 PM
> -concord- is a user-written program,
> last updated in SJ 10(4) 2010. Please remember to explain
> where user-written programs you refer to come from. Thomas
> Steichen was the senior author, but he's now retired, so I
> will speak as the young man on the team.
>
> You are right: -concord Y X, loa(noref)- plots Y - X vs (Y
> + X)/2.
>
> However, your reviewer may not be convinced just by the
> program author's say-so.
>
> There are easy demonstrations:
>
> sysuse auto
> gen mpgp2 = mpg + 2
> concord mpg2 mpg, loa
>
> On Ricardo's hypothesis, and mine too, this graph should
> show a horizontal line at +2, and it does.
>
> However, the default wording on the axis plotting Y - X is
> "Difference of ... and ..." and could fairly be described as
> ambiguous. It was clearly intended to match the default
> wording of "Mean of ... and ...". Perhaps the thought was
> that for some of the likely readership + and - signs were a
> bit too mathematical.
>
> From what Ricardo says, I gather that he edited the graph
> away from this default wording, and he got it right.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> Ricardo Ovaldia
> I used the program -concord- to generate Bland-Altman plots
> for a manuscript.
> The reviewer is saying that the differences (plotted on the
> yaxis) are inverted. That is, the title reads Y-X, but it
> really is X-Y.
>
> My understanding is, and also from manually checking, that
> if I used the command:
> . concord Y X, loa(noref)
>
> The y-axis is Y-X and not X-Y.
>
> I just need a confirmation that I am correct.
>
>
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