{smcl}
{* 11May2011}{...}
{cmd:help me}: Scott's help file - 11May2011
{hline}
{p2colset 4 17 17 2}{...}

graph describe x-bubble1.gph

{title:External links}

    {browse "http://www.stata.com/":Stata}        {browse "http://www.stata-press.com/":Stata Press}  {browse "http://www.sociolab.ethz.ch/people/jannb/estout/index.html":Jann's esttab}
    {helpb colorstyle:Colors}       {helpb scatter##marker_options:Markers}      {helpb linewidthstyle:Widths}    {helpb linepatternstyle:lpattern}

{title:Internal links}

    {help me##datasets:Datasets}
    {help me##:graphics:Graph commands}
    {help me##:macros:macro tools}
    {help me##margins:margins magic}
    {help me##quotes:Quotes processing}
    {help me##strings:String and format commands}
    {help me##svy:svy commands}
    {help me##updates:Updating Stata}
    {help me##:}

{marker datasets}
{title:Datasets ===============================================================}

    {help me##datasub:subdirectory}
{marker datasub}
{title:data subdirectory}

use data\binlfp3.dta

{marker graphics}
{title:Graph commands =========================================================}

    {help me##Gtextsz:Text size}
    {help me##:Gcaption}
    {help me##:}
    {help me##:}
{marker Gtextsz}
{title:text sizes}

    zero minuscule tiny vsmall small
    medsmall medium medlarge large vlarge huge vhuge

{marker Gcaption}
{title:Graph caption}

    caption("# `tag'",size(vsmall))
    caption("#3 wf7-matrix-plot.do jsl 2008-04-11",size(vsmall))

{marker macros}
{title:macros tools ===========================================================}

    unab all : k5-inc // expand list into macro all
    local varlbl : variable label `x'
    local grandmn = string(`grandmn',"%11.3f")
    local nvars = wordcount("`vars'")
    local word2is = word("`vars'",2)
    local sd = el(r(sd),1,1)

    local b5 = el(r(b),1,5)


{marker margins}
{title:margins magic ==========================================================}

    {help me##marginslincom:lincom}
    {help me##:}
{marker marginslincom}
{title:margins lincom after margins, post}

    lincom (_b[2._at]-_b[1bn._at])
    lincom (_b[2._at]-_b[1._at])

{marker strings}
{title:String and format commands =============================================}

  local grandmn = string(`grandmn',"%11.3f")
  local gfmt = string(`gnum',"%02.0f") // adds leading zeros

{marker svy}
{title:svy commands ===========================================================}

{title:svy and grab sd}

    svyset [pweight=kwgtr], strata(stratum) psu(secu)
    svy: mean `v'
    estat sd
    local sd = el(r(sd),1,1)

{marker updates}
{title:Updates ================================================================}

    {cmd:about} indicates when your version was born.
    {cmd:update all} updates the executeable.
    {cmd:adoupdate, update}

{title:TODO ===================================================================}


{title:Graph prediction with CI}
graph twoway ///
    (rarea A_PrLB A_PrUB A_ageAT, color(gs14)) ///
    (connected A_Pr A_ageAT, msymbol(Oh) clcol(red) mcol(red)), ///
    title("Predictions with 95% CI") ///
    subtitle("Other variables held at their mean.") ///
    ytitle("Pr(LFP)") ///
     xlabel(20(10)60) ylabel(0(.2)1.0) legend(off) ///
     xtitle("Age") caption("#5 madd_margins01.do 2010-07-26",size(tiny))

 updates SPost.

{title:Distributions}

    Critical value z: invnormal(p)
        scalar `ztest' = r(estimate)/r(se)
        scalar `pztest' = 2*(1-normal(abs(`ztest')))

{title:missing}

if !missing(v1,v2,...)
if !missing(_all)

{title:Master do-file}

capture log close master
log using wfmaster, name(master) replace text
//  program:    wfmaster.do
//  task:       Creating a master log file
//  project:    workflow chapter 5
//  author:     jsl \ 2008-06-27
do x1.do
do x2.do
log close master

{title:Graphs}

  {bf:s1manual}: BW with larger fonts for inclussion in paper.

  {bf:grids}:    ylabel(0(.1).8, grid glpattern(shortdash) glcolor(gs10)) ///

  {bf:export}:   graph export swb3-stat07a-OS3-orplot-white.png, width(1200) replace

    graph twoway (scatter y x, msymbol(dh) mcolor(black)) ///
                 (scatteri y1 x), ///
        title("Large outlier that is not influential") ///
        legend(pos(6) order( 2 ) label(2 "Regression line") ) ///
        ytitle("y") xlabel( 0 1 2 3 4 5 )

  {bf:dual axes labels}: Labels on left and right

    twoway  (connect DP_DD X, yaxis(1) ytitle("Left1",axis(1))) ///
            (connect P_XD0 X, yaxis(2) ytitle("Right2",axis(2)))


{title:Matrices}

  matrix rownames A = names
  matrix colnames A = names
  mat x5 = x[5,1...]

  mat colnames Xart = Xart
  svmat Xart, name(col) // will give variable name Xart not Xart1

  nullmat(matname)      forvalues i = 1/4 {
                            mat v = (nullmat(v), `i')
                        }

        The nullmat() function informs Stata that if v does not exist,
        the function row-join is to be generalized.  Joining nothing with \
        `i' results in (`i').  Thus the first time through the loop,
        v = (1) is formed.  The second time through, v does exist,
        so v = (1,2) is formed, and so on.




{title:text size size()}

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  vlarge        huge            vhuge               largest

{title:line thickness}

  none          vvthin          thinnest            vthin
  thin          medthin         medium              medthick
  thick         vthick          vvthick             vvvthick
  thickest      relativesize

{title:line thickness}

    solid       dash            dot                 dash_dot
    shortdash   shortdash_dot   longdash            longdash_dot
    blank

    "formula"   e.g., "-." or "--.." etc.
       l  solid line
       _  (underscore) a long dash
       -  (hyphen) a medium dash
       .  short dash (almost a dot)
       #  small amount of blank space

{marker quotes}
{title:quotes in a string}

    local textquote `"text(10 10 "dog", position(w))"'
    di `"`macval(textquote)'"'

To return this from an ado file:

    return local textis `"`textquote'"'

{title:long macros (not strings!)}

    return local ERcolNMS `"`ERcolNMS'"'

{title:dataset and variable creation}

label var "label"
local tag "pub# truncated at 20 \ wf5-varnotes.do jsl 2008-04-09."
note  var: `tag'

label data "Workflow data from Russian ISSP 2002 \ 2008-04-02"
note: wf-isspru02.dta \ workflow ch 6 \ wf6-save.do jsl 2008-04-05

datasignature set
datasignature set, reset
quietly compress
saveold mydata, replace

{title:Useful options}
    sum ..., sep(0)
    recode..., gen()
    tab ..., gen()

{p2colset 4 17 17 2}{...}
{title:Author}

{p 4 5 0}
Scott Long's help me file.{p_end}
{p 4 5 0}
{browse "http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/":My web site}
{p_end}