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Stata Teaching Tools:  Two Normal Distributions

Purpose:  The purpose of this program is to display two
normal distributions with vertical lines drawn at their means. 

Download:  You can download this program from within Stata by
typing search zdemo (see
How can I used the search command to search for programs and get additional
help?
for more information about using search).

Use of program:  To use this program, type zdemo2 mean1 sd1 mean2 sd2 in the
Stata command window.  

Example:  The following shows the output from issuing the zdemo2
command with distribution 1 having a mean of 45 and sd of 10 and distribution 2 having
a mean 52 and sd of 5.  

. zdemo2 45 10 52 5

Image zdemo2crw1