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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Scatterplot jitters - bug? (v12/Win used) |
| Date | Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:10:10 +0100 |
Fair point, but somewhere in the Stata universe there is also an anti-Allan who would regard it as a bug if data points were jittered to outside the plot region. You would probably enjoy arguing with him (or probably her). Nick njcoxstata@gmail.com On 24 June 2013 14:03, Allan Reese (Cefas) <allan.reese@cefas.co.uk> wrote: > Here's an irritating "feature" that I would term a bug, in that the results are not as per documentation and are counter-intuitive. It seems that coincident points at the top-right limit of the plotted area are not jittered. Here's a little, real, dataset and two examples to compare. Point at (5 50.2) are not jittered in the first plot. > > . list y x, sep(0) > > +----------+ > | y x | > |----------| > 1. | 0 44.7 | > 2. | 0 44.7 | > 3. | 0 44.7 | > 4. | 0 39.9 | > 5. | 1 39.9 | > 6. | 0 39.9 | > 7. | 3 35.2 | > 8. | 5 35.2 | > 9. | 5 35.2 | > 10. | 5 50.2 | > 11. | 5 50.2 | > 12. | 3 50.2 | > +----------+ > > . scatter y x, jitter(5) > > . scatter y x, jitter(5) yscale( range(0 5.2)) > > Allan > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/