use plots for bysort and xtsum

[John Andrews]

Dear all,

I have a strongly balanced panel data and I run the commands below to get some descriptive statistics

xtset id year
xtsum y x
bysort year: sum y x
bysort id: sum y x



Is there a way to plot (with histogram?) the values of these tables so as to visualize better the information provided by these commands?
My id is small, 1,2,..,12 and my year is also small 1990-1994.
So I thought that since id and year take small values, maybe some plots will work better.

Thanks in advance!

[John Andrews]

Thanks a lot!

[John Andrews]

Could I have some ideas? Many thanks

[Nick Cox]

This didn't get any answers to date.

I know why I didn't answer it (quickly) and can guess otherwise. In short, it's hard to know precisely what you're asking for and perhaps you are not clear yourself.

I don't think there is a graphical adjunct to xtsum and indeed as the variables in a panel dataset could have utterly different units and magnitudes it's hard to imagine what that might be.

Otherwise as you're mentioning only two variables y and x other than id and year, I suggest looking at

xtline y, overlay 
xtline x, overlay 


scatter y x, by(id) c(l)

[John Andrews]

Thank you so much Nick!