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Re: st: Thread-Index: Ac049lzDw8LzBnUBQd+6mSCfgPrdJg==
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Thread-Index: Ac049lzDw8LzBnUBQd+6mSCfgPrdJg==
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Thu, 24 May 2012 15:25:48 +0100
Also Austin's
[pw=finalwgt]
makes sense for his example. It will make no sense for yours. Omit it.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also you assign the graphs names e1, e2, e3 and then act as if those
> names were really Sweden, NA, Iran. That won't work.
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Your syntax like
>>
>> `: lab Sweden'
>>
>> is illegal as a way of looking up value labels and not analogous to
>> Austin's example. See -help extended fcn-.
>>
>> There are two main syntaxes
>>
>> `: valuelabelname #'
>>
>> `: (varname) #'
>>
>> and yours is neither.
>>
>> You could just say (e.g.)
>>
>> title(Sweden)
>>
>> if that is what you want.
>>
>> For the rest, try the sections in [U] on local macros and weights.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Amal Khanolkar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear Austin,
>>>
>>> Based on the code you suggested, I have the following:
>>>
>>> loc c vioplot bw [pw=finalwgt]
>>> `c' if motherland3==1, ti(`:lab Sweden') den(col(blue)) name(e1)
>>> `c' if motherland3==2, ti(`:lab NA') den(col(green)) name(e2) ysc(off)
>>> `c' if motherland3==3, ti(`:lab Iran') den(col(edkblue)) name(e3) ysc(off)
>>> gr combine Sweden NA Iran, nocop ycommon row(1) name(vio)
>>> byhist bw, by(motherland3) frac tw(leg(col(1)))
>>>
>>>
>>> - where bw is the continous outcome whose distributions I would like to produce by the categorical variable motherland3 which has 10 categories.
>>>
>>> - I've just wirtten the lines for the first 3 categories of the motherland3 variable above.
>>>
>>> -However I keep getting a error message that the line 'c' if motherland3==1....' is invalid syntax. Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what exactly the 'c' signifies?
>>>
>>> I also want to know what the (pw=finalwgt) does.
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