Easiest way to make a 3d scatterplot?

[Alex Stead]

Hi all,

Does anyone have advice on the easiest way to make a 3d scatterplot?

Thanks

[Dave Airey]

I don't think there is one in core Stata, but there are SSC add-ons, like graph3d.

Dave

[Nick Cox]

Historians of Stata would want to mention

. search gr3, historical sj

Search of official help files, FAQs, Examples, SJs, and STBs

SJ-4-4  gr3_2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for gr6; renamed scat3
        (help scat3 if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q4/04   SJ 4(4):490
        command for showing projections of 3-dimensional scatterplots;
        ported to Stata 8 and renamed scat3

STB-12  gr3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crude 3-dimensional graphics revisited
        (help gr3 if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Gould
        3/93    p.12; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.42--43

STB-2   gr3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crude 3-dimensional graphics
        (help gr3 if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Gould
        7/91    pp.6--8; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.35--38

but I suspect graph3d is the best available. Perhaps Stata 15 will provide a pleasant surprise!

[Dick Campbell]

I seem to remember someone (was it Bill Gould?) saying something like the following at a Stata meeting I attended a few years back: "All attempts to render a three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface are doomed to failure."