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st: Re: Stack trick by Nicholas Cox
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Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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st: Re: Stack trick by Nicholas Cox
Date
Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:10:31 -0500
Hello,
I am a novice and trying to learn stata graphics.I read Speaking Stat
by Nick, vol 4 , number 2, page 190-215 regarding Graphing Categorical
and compositional data.
Nick writes a conditional statement on page 193.I could not understand
the second option
His cond statement is bysort foreign mpg:gen foreign2=cond(foreign==1,
1-0.1*(_n-1)/7, foreign+0.1*(_n-1)/7)
I cannot understand what does 1-0.1*(_n-1)/7 and
foreign+0.1*(_n-1)/7 compute and their purpose.I tried to read the
article but am still at loss.
Sorry if it was a straightforward question(which I could not understand)
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Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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