Help with dot plot axis

[Katharine Callahan]

Hi Forum,
This is my first post so I apologize if I make mistakes, but i did indeed read the directions. I am trying to plot

I am trying to plot the relative risks associated with different studies. Some studies have multiple outcomes with multiple relative risks associated. As such, I would like the x axis to state the name of the study author alongside the 1-10 associated outcomes. I would also like there to be a space between the different studies. However, I have had almost no success manipulating the x axis names outside of graph editor. Can you help? Below are my current code and graph

graph dot rr_uncertain rr_positive, over(outcome_id) yscale (range(0,5)) yline(1) ytitle("Relative risk")

Thank you VERY much!
KPC

[Hemanshu Kumar]

Hi Katharine, welcome to Statalist!

Please go through the FAQ here, especially #12, and implement the suggestions there. In particular, please

• post your graph as a PNG file, not .gph (see #12.4 and 12.5)
• post a data example using the dataex command (as suggested in #12.2)
• post your code using CODE delimiters (see #12.3)

[Andrew Musau]

I would like the x axis to state the name of the study author alongside the 1-10 associated outcomes.

It sounds like you want plots by study author as opposed to a single plot. What variable identifies studies in your dataset? In any case, provide a data example that includes this variable and the variables listed in #1. You can do this by copying and pasting the output from the following:

dataex rr_uncertain rr_positive outcome_id study_name

where you replace "study_name" above with the actual name of your study identifier in your dataset.