Let’s render an XKCD comic using Stata! I loved today’s XKCD comic so I decided to take some time while eating my sandwich to write a .do file script to render it in Stata. There aren’t great smooth line options without figuring out the exact function for each line in Stata, so I approximated the …
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NOTE: I have more recently put together user-friendly code on scatterplots and Bland-Altman plots. Go check those pages out. Scatterplots with a fitted line This is pretty straightforward in Stata. This is a variation of a figure that I made for a JAMA Internal Medicine paper. (I like to think that the original figure was …
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Dot and confidence interval figures in Stata Stata has a pretty handy -twoway scatter- code that can be combined with -twoway rcap- to make the figure below. Example code at the bottom. Horizontal version Vertical version First step, make an Excel file or input directly in a do file You might find it a bit …
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Making a horizontal stacked bar graph in Stata I spent a bit of time making a variation of this figure today. (The data here are made up.) I’m pleased with how it came out. I first tried to use the -graph bar, horizontal- command, but it didn’t give me as much customization as -twoway graph …
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Learn to love NHANES NHANES is a robust, nationally-representative cross-sectional study. For the past ~18 years it sampled different communities across the US in 2 year continuous cycles. A few of these years are linked to National Death Index data, so you can assess risk factors at the time of the survey and use time-to-event …
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I took the Stata programming class at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health during grad school It was taught by Dorry Segev. If you are at the school, I highly, highly, highly recommend taking it and doing all of the assignments in term 4. It saved me many hours of labor in writing up my thesis. …
July 2019 update I have since discovered the excellent table1_mc program and have abandoned using this program. I’m keeping this code here for historical sake. Check out my write-up of table1_mc. Stata programs to make tables Here are a few simple Stata programs that will write a CSV file for your Table 1. This has …