Graph with conditioning

[Luisa Opitz]

Hi there, I would like to create a graph with two lines one for each condition. This is what I tried:

graph twoway (line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==0, line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==1)

[Nick Cox]

help axis scale options

[Luisa Opitz]

Thank you. One last extension: How can I adjust the yscale? I would like to have scores from 25 to 40

[Nick Cox]

"not working" could mean anything here from "I got an error message" to "I didn't get the graph I wanted".

You're mixing quite different syntaxes. That may be legal but I would keep to one syntax. When commands get that complicated, I open up the Do-file editor and do something like

line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition == 1 ///
|| rcap hiBARTAdj lowBARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==1 ///
|| line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition == 2 ///
|| rcap hiBARTAdj lowBARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==2, ///
legend(label(1 "high sense") label(2 "low sense")) title("BART by weekday sense")

[Luisa Opitz]

Hi, thank you very much, that worked. Now I would also like to include se and created variables accordingly, but the code for the graph is not working:

generate hiBARTAdj = mean_BARTAdj + (sd_BARTAdj / sqrt(n))
generate lowBARTAdj = mean_BARTAdj - (sd_BARTAdj / sqrt(n))
line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered (rcap hiBARTAdj lowBARTAdj weekday_ordered) if origin_condition==1 || line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered (rcap hiBARTAdj lowBARTAdj weekday_ordered) if origin_condition==2, legend(label(1 "high sense") label(2 "low sense")) title("BART by weekday sense")

[Nick Cox]

Here is some technique to fool around with.

decode origin, gen(toshow)
set scheme s1color 
line mean weekday if origin == 1, lc(red) || line mean weekday if origin == 2 , lc(blue) ///
xla(1/7, valuelabel) xtitle("") yla(, ang(h)) xsc(r(. 7.5)) legend(off) ///
ytitle(something less barbarous belongs here) /// 
|| scatter mean weekday if origin == 1 & week == 7, ms(none) mla(toshow) mlabc(red) mlabsize(medium) /// 
|| scatter mean weekday if origin == 2 & week == 7, ms(none) mla(toshow) mlabc(blue) mlabsize(medium)

[Nick Cox]

The values of origin_condition are 1 and 2. You asked to see results for 0 (there aren't any) and 1.

[Luisa Opitz]

. dataex mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered origin_condition

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* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input double mean_BARTAdj long weekday_ordered float origin_condition
31.978152856584227 1 1
 34.80145448687116 1 2
 33.82251130314856 2 2
32.545402364520015 2 1
 36.27314413074217 3 2
31.548568465847875 3 1
 31.18929699113523 4 1
33.821495287120285 4 2
33.971447919364586 5 2
32.447326516076515 5 1
34.302633681677804 6 2
31.286982693232694 6 1
 37.93971907721908 7 2
 31.58368080721022 7 1
end
label values weekday_ordered order
label def order 1 "M", modify
label def order 2 "Tu", modify
label def order 3 "W", modify
label def order 4 "Th", modify
label def order 5 "F", modify
label def order 6 "Sa", modify
label def order 7 "Su", modify
label values origin_condition origin_condition
label def origin_condition 1 "low", modify
label def origin_condition 2 "high", modify

------------------ copy up to and including the previous line ------------------

Listed 14 out of 14 observations

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[Nick Cox]

Your code looks good to me. So I suspect that some assumption about your data is wrong. Please show the results of

dataex mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered origin_condition

[Luisa Opitz]

Unfortunately, I still only get one line. Maybe for more context

gen sensecond = sense > 2
lab def condition 0 "low" 1 "high"
lab values sensecond condition
egen origin_condition = group(sensecond), label
collapse (mean) mean_BARTAdj=BARTAdj (sd) sd_BARTAdj=BARTAdj (count) n=BARTAdj, by(origin_condition weekday)

* generate a numerical variable with labels of the string variable
* you cannot use string variables for a line plot
label define order 1 M 2 Tu 3 W 4 Th 5 F 6 Sa 7 Su
encode weekday, generate(weekday_ordered) label (order)
sort weekday_ordered

line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==0 || line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==1

[Nick Cox]

Commas introduce options and have other uses and meanings, but they don't ever separate commands.

line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==0 || line mean_BARTAdj weekday_ordered if origin_condition==1