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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: FW: st: Plotting several linear associations in one graph for comparison |
| Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:22:33 +0200 |
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Amal Khanolkar wrote: > how did you 'fix' the covariates, i.e how did you choose the 1, 40 & 15 in your example below? > > // the correct graph (again) > preserve > replace union = 1 > replace hours = 40 > replace ttl_exp = 15 You just choose reasonable values, e.g. I chose to look at a union member who worked the regular (40) hours a week. For work experience I looked for the closest "nice" number near the average amount of work experience. So, in general you need to use your knowledge of the context and use that to decide what values are interesting and/or typical. -- Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/