An Economist Graph
The Stata Tutorial has a plot of U.S. Life Expectancy over time using the Economist scheme. Here’s the code and graph side-by-side:
. #delimit ;
delimiter now ;
. quietly sysuse uslifeexp, clear;
. graph twoway line
> le_wmale le_bmale year,
> clcolor(blue red)
> title("U.S. Life Expectancy")
> subtitle("Males")
> legend(
> order(1 "white" 2 "black")
> ring(0)
> pos(5)
> )
> yscale(log
> range(25 80)
> )
> scheme(economist);
. quietly graph export economist.png,
> width(500) replace;
Visualizing Regression Models
Dawn Koffman gave a workshop on visualizing regression models using Ben Jann’s coefplot. After reading the data, running a regression model, and storing the estimates, she plots the coefficients:
delimiter now ;
> #delimit ; delimiter now ; . coefplot fem_age_bmi_reg, eform > drop (_cons) xscale(log) > xline(1, lwidth(vthin)) omitted > cismooth grid(none) > coeflabels( > female="female" age="age (years)" > bmi="bmi" reg1="Northest" > reg2="Midwest" reg3="South" > reg4="(reference cat) West", > notick labsize(medlarge)) > title(Diabetes Risk Factors, > color(black)); . quietly graph export coefplot.png, > width(500) replace;
