Coefplot: keep / drop coefficients from one model, not the whole plot

[Ingrid Storm]

Dear Statalist,

I've recently started using coefplot command and like it's versatility, but I cannot work out how to use the keep command as a model option rather than a global option (as it seems you can from the help file (http://repec.sowi.unibe.ch/stata/coe...help-file.html).

Specifically I would like to create a graph with 5 different models: each contains an identical list of individual level variables (model 1), and model 2-5 adds one country level variable each. If I show all of the models at once the individual level coefficients (which are pretty much the same - i.e. adds very little info) fall on top of each other and it looks cluttered. Instead I would like to include them in model 1 and exclude them from model 2-5, where I would like to only show the country level coefficients. I have tried the following command:

coefplot (M1, label(Model 1)) (M2, label(Model 2), keep(zGini)) (M3, label (Model 3), keep (zGDPrev)) (M4, label (Model 4), keep (zWGIrev)) (M5, label (Model 5), keep (zMIPEXrev)) ///
drop(_cons) xline(0)

However, this does not work, and I get the error message

invalid 'keep'
r(198);

What am I doing wrong, and does anyone know a way to do this? Hope you can help,
Ingrid

[Ingrid Storm]

Thanks to a little help from a friend, I figured out how to do this, and thought I'd post the syntax here in case anyone else had the same problem:

coefplot (M1, label (Model 1), keep (* (M2, label (Model 2), keep(zGini)) (M3, label (Model 3), keep (zGDPrev)) (M4, label (Model 4), keep (zWGIrev)) (M5, label (Model 5), keep (zMIPEXrev)) ///
drop(_cons) xline(0)

[Ingrid Storm]

Apologies for the accidental . The above syntax was supposed to be:

coefplot (M1, label (Model 1), keep (*: ) (M2, label (Model 2), keep(zGini)) (M3, label (Model 3), keep (zGDPrev)) (M4, label (Model 4), keep (zWGIrev)) (M5, label (Model 5), keep (zMIPEXrev)) ///
drop(_cons) xline(0)