Graphics Reference
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twoway scatter
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Since it can be cumbersome to type
graph twoway scatter
, Stata allows
you to shorten this to
twoway scatter
.
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scatter
ownhome propval100
In fact, some
graph twoway
commands
are so frequently used that Stata
permits you to omit the
graph twoway
,
as we have done here, and just start the
command with
scatter
. While this
can save some typing, this can
sometimes conceal the fact that the
command is really a
twoway
graph and
that these are a special class of graphs.
For clarity, I will generally present
these graphs starting with
twoway
.
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twoway scatter ownhome propval100,
msymbol(Sh)
You can control the marker symbol with
the
msymbol()
option. Here, we make
the symbols large, hollow squares. See
Options : Markers
(235) for more details
about controlling the marker symbol,
size, and color, and see
Styles : Symbols
(342) for the symbols you can select.
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