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Re: st: RE: plotting time series
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stef salvez <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
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Re: st: RE: plotting time series
Date
Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:51:47 +0100
Nick,
I was talking of an image similar to the below one
http://www.survey-design.com.au/stripplot3.png
where as you can see between the knots there are some red lines
thank you again
On 6/2/12, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, I don't think I have a good understanding of what you want
> here. In any case, adding lines can't add to information on spacing
> that is not already shown on the graph.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, stef salvez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> thank you NIck. It worked
>>
>> Let me explained what I did in order to tell you what I eventually need
>>
>> The MS excel file is the following
>>
>> have these sequence of dates in an excel file. The structure of the
>> excel file is
>> France Italy ......
>> 22/02/09 14/06/09
>> 22/03/09 12/7/2009
>> 19/04/09 9/8/2009
>> 17/05/09 6/9/2009
>> 12/7/2009 4/10/2009
>> 09/08/09 01/11/09
>> 6/9/2009 29/11/09
>> 4/10/2009 27/12/09
>> 01/11/09 31/01/10
>> 29/11/09 28/02/10
>> 27/12/09 28/03/10
>> 31/01/10
>>
>>
>> The I apply the commands
>>
>> clear
>> set trace off
>> set more off
>> set mem 120m
>> cd d:\
>> insheet using "dates0.csv"
>> gen edate1 = date(v1, "DMY")
>> gen edate2 = date(v2, "DMY")
>>
>> format edate1 %
>> format edate2 %
>> stripplot edate1 edate2
>>
>> and I get the desired plot. Yet the problem is that I also want to add
>> on the top of each of these 2 lines the distance ( measured in days)
>> between these successive dates for each country. And mark each
>> distance with a symbol like { or [. Is is possible to extend the
>> stripplot command somehow to achieve the desired resuls?
>> thanks again
>>
>>
>> Is it possible to add on the top of each of these 2 lines the
>> distance ( measured in days) between these successive dates for each
>> country. I would be grateful to you if you could also mark each
>> distance with a symbol like { or [. I know it is a big challenge to
>> you but for me is an impossible task
>>
>> thanks again
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/12, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Have a look at -stripplot- from SSC.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> stef salvez
>>>
>>> I have a panel data across countries and individuals. For each country
>>> I have a sequence of dates
>>> For France for example
>>> 22/02/09
>>> 22/03/09
>>> 19/04/09
>>> 17/05/09
>>> 12/07/09
>>> 09/08/09
>>> 06/09/09
>>> 04/10/09
>>> 01/11/09
>>> 29/11/09
>>> 27/12/09
>>> 31/01/10
>>>
>>> For Italy
>>> 14/06/09
>>> 12/07/09
>>> 09/08/09
>>> 06/09/09
>>> 04/10/09
>>> 01/11/09
>>> 29/11/09
>>> 27/12/09
>>> 31/01/10
>>> 28/02/10
>>> 28/03/10
>>>
>>> And I want to "plot" (in one graph) these sequences of dates in the
>>> sense that I want to have a"visual" contact of each of the behaviour
>>> of the series of dates because as you can see I do not have the same
>>> start date and end date and the next date is not always every 28
>>> days. So I have a jump in some cases. I would like to visualize these
>>> characteristics-differences between the two series of dates by
>>> making a plot.
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