RE: st: gra command

[Guelmbaye Ngarsandjé <guelmbaye@hotmail.com>]

Hi Nick,
You said "cusum6 is an old program" that's why I ask if there is a new one. As I said, I am working on time series data and want to label my X axis so I could identify (with th cusum6 command) break point; but, I can't edit myself. I would like to know if there is a command telling stata to put all my time-periods (quarter) on the X axis.

Thanks

PS: I am using stata 12 with update from March20th, 2013.

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> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:15:34 +0100
> Subject: Re: st: gra command
> From: njcoxstata@gmail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> I fail to see how this question follows from my post, but
>
> 1. The official Stata command -cusum- is absolutely nothing to do with
> -cusum6- (SSC).
>
> 2. As -cusum6- (SSC) still works, there is no obvious need for it to
> be replaced with anything.
>
> If that doesn't answer your question, please state what you want to do
> and someone may be able to help.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 25 June 2013 22:06, Guelmbaye Ngarsandjé <guelmbaye@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> What is the new command cusum for time series data then? The cusum commmand does not work saying data are out of range.
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:55:34 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: st: gra command
>>> From: njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>>>
>>> Anders is giving excellent advice.
>>>
>>> Being new to Stata Guelmbaye is, however, confusing quite different sources.
>>>
>>> 1. -cusum6- (SSC, Kit Baum, as you are asked to explain) is an old
>>> program but it sets -version 6- at the beginning of the program so its
>>> graphs should work fine, although as noted they cannot be edited with
>>> modern Stata's Graph Editor.
>>>
>>> 2. The problem that Guelmbaye is reporting comes from reliance not on
>>> -cusum6- but on a document
>>> http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhte/006/ec5040/Cusum%20test.pdf which is
>>> (a) quite independent of -cusum6- and (b) out-of-date.
>>>
>>> Something like
>>>
>>> (version 7 and older)
>>> graph cusum lower upper year, s([year]) c(.mm) xlab(1965,1975,1985,1995) ylab
>>>
>>> would probably go better as
>>>
>>> (version 8 and later)
>>> scatter cusum year || line lower upper year
>>>
>>> with -ylabel()- and -xlabel()- added to taste.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Anders Alexandersson
>>>
>>>> Then build up the graph from the beginning with the current graph command.
>>>> Also, did you read
>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-04/msg00231.html ?
>>>
>>> Guelmbaye Ngarsandjé
>>>
>>>>> Thanks. This works well though I can't edit it!
>>>
>>> Anders Alexandersson
>>>
>>>>>> Change -gra- to -gr7- if you want to use the old Stata 7 graph command.
>>>>>> As I wrote, see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/graphics78.htm .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the other graph problems, I suggest you instead use the current
>>>>>> graph command.
>>>>>> See http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-04/msg00231.html
>>>
>>> Guelmbaye Ngarsandjé
>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Anders. I changed "gra" to "graph" and I got "gpopgraph_g.new petindex, s([year]) xlab ylab: class member function not found" message. To say it frankly, it's my first time using stata and I have stata12; therefore it's hard for me to know what has changed and from where. How about the other problems I long for answers?
>>>
>>> Anders Alexandersson
>>>
>>>>>>>> The -gra- command is the Stata 7 (and older) graph command.
>>>>>>>> See http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/graphics78.htm
>>>
>>> Guelmbaye Ngarsandjé
>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have been looking to check the strutural break in my data and found
>>>>>>>>> that cusum6 helps do it. However, the file I found has some commands
>>>>>>>>> that don’t work when I type them. For example using greenedat.dta from
>>>>>>>>> P.136 provided by the file is the command:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> “gra gpop petindex, s([year]) xlab ylab” which gives the following
>>>>>>>>> message : “Unrecognized command: gra”
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The support file can be found at:
>>>>>>>>> http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhte/006/ec5040/Cusum%20test.pdf
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What am I doing wrong? In the mean time I want my X axis to be fully
>>>>>>>>> labelled by the periods but when trying to edit the cusum graphs I
>>>>>>>>> receive “This is not a “live” graph and therefore cannot be edited.”
>>>>>>>>> How to obtain my periods labelled at 45 degrees on the X axis?
>>>
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