Re: st: Re: z-score diff plots

[Nikos Kakouros <nkakouros@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Joseph.
I was hoping to have a single graph demonstrating the interaction
between the three variables.
I wonder what anyone thought of the proposed idea of plotting the
z-score difference between the two tests against the interacting
variable...
KR
Nikos

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Joseph Coveney <stajc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nikos Kakouros wrote:
>
> I'd like to first apologize upfront for the lack of specificity in my
> question - please be sensitive to my lack of experience with Stata. :)
>
> I have two tests that are meant to measure the same thing (blood
> thickness) but with totally different units. On the whole they
> correlate well (patients with thick blood have higher values on both
> measurements), but the first test is affected (on univariate analysis)
> by another blood parameter but the second test is not. Their
> correlation is, therefore, dependent on the third parameter.
>
> I would appreciate on comments/advice on how to best visually show
> this relationship in Stata. I was thinking the following: convert all
> measurements to z-scores and depict the difference in z-score for the
> two measurements at different values (y axis) vs the value of the
> third variable that affects one of the tests more than the other
> (x-axis).
>
> Is anyone familiar with such a visualization?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm not familiar with it.  Would a scatterplot matrix (SPLOM) help?
> (See -help graph matrix-.)
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
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