graph dot for stsum

[Elisa Cisotto]

Hi,

I would like to create a graph dot with the median age estimated using stsum. stsum store the median age results in r(p50) but I cannot build a dot graph using that result.

I tried:

stsum, by(wave female rip2 edu2)
local text=r(p50)

graph dot `text', over(wave) over(edu2) over(rip2) by(female) exclude0 legend(on)

But I don't get the right estimates

Here an example of the graph I would like to have:

Thank you
Elisa

[Nick Cox]

That isn't going to work because your local macro contains one (and only one) numeric result, the last median calculated. The documentation doesn't imply otherwise, but it isn't in my view clear that the saved results are fairly useless.

It being a numeric result creates a fatal syntax error (I presume; you seem to imply that you got a graph but it was wrong) and it containing just one result means that even in principle you don't have the information there to supply to a graph command.

Survival analysis is not what I ever do, but this is a start on an answer explaining why that didn't work. You must get at your plot otherwise and I trust that someone will explain in terms of technique that will replicate stsum results.