Stata Graphing for Economists

Basic twoway scatterplot

sysuse sp500 graph twoway scatter close date

Line Plot

graph twoway line close date

Connected Line Plot

graph twoway connected close date

Immediate scatterplot

graph twoway scatteri /// 965.8 15239 (3) "Low 965.8" /// 1373.73 15005 (3) "High 1373.73" , msymbol(i)

Note: Including (3) denotes the label position, by default labels are positioned at 3 o'clock

Scatterplot and Immediate Scatterplot

graph twoway /// (scatter close date) /// (scatteri 965.8 15239 (3) "Low, 9/21, 965.8" /// 1373.7 15005 (3) "High, 1/30, 1373.7", msymbol(i) )

Area Graph

drop if _n > 57 graph twoway area close date, sort

Bar plot

graph twoway bar close date

Spike plot

graph twoway spike close date

Dropline plot

graph twoway dropline close date

Dot plot

graph twoway dot change date

Range plot with area shading

graph twoway rarea high low date

Range plot with bars

graph twoway rbar high low date

Range plot with spikes

graph twoway rspike high low date

Range plot with capped spikes

graph twoway rcap high low date

Range plot with spikes capped with symbols

graph twoway rcapsym high low date

Range plot with markers

graph twoway rscatter high low date

Range plot with lines

graph twoway rline high low date

Range plot with lines and markers

graph twoway rconnected high low date

Median band line plot

use http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/notes/hsb2, clear graph twoway mband read write

Spline line plot

graph twoway mspline read write

LOWESS line plot

graph twoway lowess read write

Linear prediction plot

graph twoway lfit read write

Quadratic prediction plot

graph twoway qfit read write

Fractional polynomial plot

graph twoway fpfit read write

Linear prediction plot with confidence intervals

graph twoway lfitci read write

Quadratic plot with confidence intervals

graph twoway qfitci read write

Fractional polynomial plot with CIs

graph twoway fpfitci read write

Histogram

graph twoway histogram read

Kernel density plot

graph twoway kdensity read

Function plot

graph twoway function y=normden(x), range(-4 4)