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Re: st: RE: 2 dimensional graph for joint distribution
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Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: 2 dimensional graph for joint distribution
Date
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:28:05 -0400
Lulu, would a contour plot be helpful in your case?
twoway contour share odo bill
Best, Sergiy Radyakin
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lulu,
>
> Based on the example in the Train paper, it appears that you want a three-dimensional plot, not a two-dimensional plot. That is, -odo- and -bill- on the x- and y-axis and -share- on the z-axis.
>
> I am not aware of a Stata command (built-in or user-written) to do this as a bar graph (as in the Train paper). The closest thing is -surface- from SSC which does wireframe surface plots. You can use the -nowire- option to plot each point separately with a dropline instead of connecting them with a wire frame.
>
> . surface odo bill share, nowire
>
> You might also want to check out Stata's -graph twoway contour- which is designed for plotting three variables in two dimensions.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lulu Zeng
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: 2 dimensional graph for joint distribution
>
> Dear Statalist
>
> I am having trouble creating a two dimensional joint distribution bar graph in Stata.
>
> I'm trying to graph the joint distribution of 2 coefficients I estimated from a nonparametric choice model using fixed mass point method following Kenneth Train's approach in his 2008 paper (EM Algorithms for nonparametric estimation of mixing distributions). The graph I am trying to make is similar to the one on page 65 of Train's
> paper: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~train/EMtrain.pdf
>
> My 2 coefficients (both discrete) are called odo and bill, and the variable share gives the distribution of the 2 coefficients (share adds up to 1), for example:
>
> odo bill share
> 0.25 0.58 0.15
> 0.48 0.93 0.17
> 0.33 0.20 0.09
> 0.76 0.64 0.23
> 0.87 0.28 0.25
> 0.53 0.83 0.11
>
> I want to graph the joint distribution of odo and bill with them on the x axis (2 dimensions), and their joint distribution shown as percentages on the y axis.
>
> Thank you very much for your help in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
> Lulu
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