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Graphics:Overview of Twoway Plots | Stata Learning Modules

This module shows examples of the different kinds of graphs that can be
created with the graph twoway command.  This is illustrated by showing the command and
the resulting graph.  For more information, see the
Stata Graphics Manual
available over the web and from within Stata by typing help graph, and in
particular the section on Two Way
Scatterplots.

Basic twoway scatterplot

sysuse sp500
graph twoway scatter close date

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Line Plot

graph twoway line close date

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Connected Line Plot

graph twoway connected close date

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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

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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) )

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Area Graph

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

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Bar plot

graph twoway bar close date

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Spike plot

graph twoway spike close date

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Dropline plot

graph twoway dropline close date

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Dot plot

graph twoway dot change date

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Range plot with area shading

graph twoway rarea high low date

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Range plot with bars

graph twoway rbar high low date

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Range plot with spikes

graph twoway rspike high low date

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Range plot with capped spikes

graph twoway rcap high low date

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Range plot with spikes capped with symbols

graph twoway rcapsym high low date

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Range plot with markers

graph twoway rscatter high low date

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Range plot with lines

graph twoway rline high low date

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Range plot with lines and markers

graph twoway rconnected high low date

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Median band line plot

use https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/stata/notes/hsb2, clear
graph twoway mband read write

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Spline line plot

graph twoway mspline read write

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LOWESS line plot

graph twoway lowess read write

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Linear prediction plot

graph twoway lfit read write

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Quadratic prediction plot

graph twoway qfit read write

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Fractional polynomial plot

graph twoway fpfit read write

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Linear prediction plot with confidence intervals

graph twoway lfitci read write

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Quadratic plot with confidence intervals

graph twoway qfitci read write

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Fractional polynomial plot with CIs

graph twoway fpfitci read write

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Histogram

graph twoway histogram read

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Kernel density plot

graph twoway kdensity read

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Function plot

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

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