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Capacity for Love and Prejudice – Stata Simulation

* This is my simple hypothesis (really my own personal prejudice):* the more prejudice someone allows themselves to be the less capacity they have for love.* In this simulation I will attempt to generate a graph which convey’s this idea with a pink equ…

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Recursively building graph commands

| Gabriel | I really like multi-line graphs and scatterplots where the marker color/style reflects categories. Such graphs are both more compact than just having multiple graphs and they make it easier to compare different things. The way you do this is with “twoway,” a lot of parentheses, and the “if” condition. For example: Unfortunately […]

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So Long Arial

| Gabriel | Now that I’ve been looking into setting my graphs in a serif font instead of the default Arial, I find that changing fonts in Stata graphs is surprisingly difficult. It’s not that it’s intrinsically difficult, just confusing to learn because Stata’s handling of fonts breaks with the general Stata convention of specifying options […]

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Adding elements to graphs as a slideshow

| Gabriel | One of the tricks to a successful presentation is to limit what your audience sees so they don’t get ahead of you and also to preserve a general sense of timing and flow. This helps keep the audience’s attention and also is good for focusing expectations in such a way that the […]

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Christmas in July

| Gabriel | Has it been two years already? Holy moly, Stata 12 looks awesome. The headline feature is structural equation modeling. It comes with a graphic model builder, which even an “only scripting is replicable” zealot like me can appreciate as it helps you learn complicated command syntax. (I feel the same way about graphs). […]

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