graph oneway?

[Jeph Herrin]

I am constructing some nomagrams, so I need to graph what are are essentially number lines (with aligned scales). I can imagine constructing some fake y data and then using graph twoway with no marker, but this seems like a lot of effort for what should be a standard graph type - is it?

thanks,
Jeph

[Rich Goldstein]

have you tried the user-written nomolog (from SJ)? if this does not do what you want, please clarify what else you are looking for

[Jeph Herrin]

-nomolog- is for logistic models; I have survival models which I am using to generate risk profiles at various time points (eg, 1 year, 5 year, etc). So I've done all the hard work already, and produced the scaled values for each risk factor. Now I just want to graph these as ticked x-axes that line up - it's just a graphing problem.

In short, I am looking for a way to graph number lines. I am not sure how better to clarify it - I have several variables x1, x2, ..., xn, and I need to draw the range of each, with labels on particular values, and I need them stacked up so their scales align.

Here is an example of the type of figure: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/conte...expansion.html

Frank Harrell wrote an R package, -rms-, which is what these authors used, but it'd be a nontrivial job to set up the models in R (including imputation) so I'd really like to draw these in Stata.


thanks,
Jeph

[Jeph Herrin]

Followup: I worked out a somewhat tedious solution using -xtline-, based on a similar use by the -nomogram- package.

cheers,
Jeph