Twoway scatter, rcap by category

[Sumedha Gupta]

Dear All,

I want to plot a scatter and rcap plots for a categorical variable taking 3 categories. I use the following code:

twoway (scatter esi_b type if counter==1, msym(s) mcol(black)) || ///
        (rcap  esi_lci esi_uci type if counter==1, lcol(black)) || ///
  (scatter nonesi_b type if counter==1, msym(s) mcol(ltblue)) || ///
        (rcap  nonesi_lci nonesi_uci type if counter==1, lcol(ltblue)), ///
  yline(0, lcolor(cranberry)) ///
  legend(off) ///
  xlabel( 1 "I" 2 "II" 3 "III") ///
  xtitle("")

But, I want the black and the blue plots to be placed *adjacent* to each other (slightly staggered from each other but still both roughly hovering over I) rather than the exact same X axis value. This will avoid the black and the blue lines from partially overlapping each other for category III. How can I do that? I will be very grateful for you help.

Many thanks,
Sumedha.

[Roman Mostazir]

Create anoter "type" variable for second scatter by adding a decimal:

gen type2 = type+.2
(scatter nonesi_b type2 if counter==1, msym(s) mcol(ltblue)) ||  ///
(rcap nonesi_lci nonesi_uci type2 if counter==1, lcol(ltblue))

[Sumedha Gupta]

Thank you this worked well