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re: Re: Re: st: mlabel on marginsplot?
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"Ariel Linden, DrPH" <[email protected]>
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re: Re: Re: st: mlabel on marginsplot?
Date
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:02:44 -0400
This is an excellent catch, Scott! Thank you (and Nick and Roger) for your
replies!
Ariel
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:54:48 -0500
From: Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: st: mlabel on marginsplot?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are not giving specific examples of what you tried, but in general
> marker labels only work when the values being plotted and the
> variable you want to use as marker label can be related by virtue of
> reading across observations. That is the structure is similar to
>
> (y being plotted) (x being plotted) (z to use as marker label)
>
> I haven't looked inside -marginsplot- but I think that the way that
> -marginsplot- works is with a reduced dataset and that reduced dataset
> would need to include your marker label variable for this to work.
>
Can see the data set that -marginsplot- use by calling -serset use- :
sysuse auto,clear
reg price mpg
margins , at(mpg=(5(5)50))
marginsplot
serset use
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