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st: RE: -scatter and alpha-blending
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: -scatter and alpha-blending
Date
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
Unfortunately, Stata doesn't have transparent fills for scatterplot
markers, but you might be able to fashion a workaround similar to p. 605
of:
Stata tip 27: Classifying data points on scatter plots
N. J. Cox. 2005.
Stata Journal Volume 5 Number 4.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=gr0023
The key would be to identify the observations that are completely
overlapping and make the markers darker in proportion to their relative
frequency.
If there are no or few completely overlapping points, an approach that
might work is using hollow circles as markers (msymbol(Oh) or
msymbol(oh)), because circles minimize overplotting.
David
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Francesco
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:13 PM
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> Subject: st: -scatter and alpha-blending
>
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I would like to know whether it is possible to obtain in Stata a
> scatterplot
> with so called "alpha blending" :the markers are slightly transparent so
> that darker regions in the graph have a higher point density...
> Very much like this (In R) :
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7714677/r-scatterplot-with-too-many-
> points
>
> What do you think?
>
> Many thanks!
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