The following sections describe optional components that may be used as part of a graph specification:

Adding a categorical spec to a graph commands produces a categorical graph. For example, adding a categorical spec to a bar graph generates a categorical bar graph using the factors defined by the spec; adding a categorical spec to an XY-line graph creates a categorical XY-line graph.

The categorical spec is used to specify the factors used in categorization. It may include one or more within and across factors of the following form:

or

where factor_name is the name of a series used to define a category along with the factor_options. Multiple factors of a given type should be listed in order from most slowly to fastest varying.

Categorical graphs are not supported for matrix object views. Note also that use of a categorical specification will override any panel options.

displays a categorical boxplot graph of PROFITS using distinct values of FIRM to define the categories, and displaying the graphs in multiple frames.

shows the same graph with individual scaling for each of the frames, using the displayname in labels.

displays a boxplot graph categorized by firm (with an added category for the total), with all of the graphs in a single frame and the category value used as labels.

constructs a categorical bar graph of the sum of SER1 values within a category. Different firms are displayed in different graph frames, using the display name as labels, with each frame containing bars depicting the sum of SER1 for each income quartiles.

creates a bar graph of mean values of within categories based on both SEX and UNION. Categories for the distinct elements of UNION will be depicted using different bar colors, with the color assignment repeated for different values of SEX.

By default, the multiple series in a group are treated as the first (most slowly varying) across factor. To control the treatment of this implicit factor, you may use the “@series” keyword in a within or across specification; if the factor is not the first one of its type listed, it will be treated as the last factor. Thus:

creates an boxplot for within categories based on both SEX and UNION. Since we have not specified behavior for the implicit series factor in GRP1, the series in the group will be treated as the first across factor and will be displayed in a separate frame.

displays theoretical qq-plots with the series in G1 treated as the within factor and @SERIES treated as the across factor. The qq-plots for each series in G1 will be displayed in separate frames, with multiple qq-plots for each AGE category shown in each frame.

displays histograms and kernel density plots where the implicit factor is the last across factor.

displays bar graphs of the minimum values for categories defined by distinct values of AGE (and the two series). All of the bars will be displayed in a single frame with the bars for OLDSALES grouped together followed by the bars for NEWSALES.

also adds an additional categorization using the FIRM identifiers. The observations for a given firm are grouped together. Within a firm, the bars for the OLDSALES and NEWSALES, which will be depicted using different colors, will be grouped within each age category. The color assignment to OLDSALES and NEWSALES will be repeated across firms and ages (note that @SERIES is treated as the last across factor).

You may add one or more fit lines or confidence ellipses to your XY graph using an auxiliary spec. (Note that auxiliary specs are not allowed with stacked XY graphs.)

For a description of the available fit line types, see “Auxiliary Graph Types”.

The auxiliary spec should be in the form:

where fitline_type is one of the following keywords:

Each fit line type has its own set of options, to be entered in type_options:

To save the data from selected auxiliary graph types in the workfile, see Group::distdata, and Matrix::distdata.

displays a scatterplot of Y against X and W against Z, together with the fitted values from a regression of log Y on log X and log W on log Z.

shows scatterplots of Y, Z, and W along the vertical axis and X along the horizontal axis, and superimposes both a simple linear regression fit and a fit of the Box-Cox transformation of the vertical axis variable against X, with 10 iterations of bisquare weights,.

displays scatterplots with HEIGHT, LENGTH, and VOLUME on the vertical axis and WEIGHT on the horizontal axis, along with the default kernel regression fit, and a second-degree polynomial fit with bracketed bandwidths.

displays a scatterplot matrix of the series in GG and fits a kernel regression of the Y-axis variable on the X-axis variable using 200 grid points.

displays the nearest neighbor fit of CONS90 on GDP90 and of CONS70 on GDP70 with exact (full) sampling and 3 robustness iterations. Each local regression fits the default linear regression, with tricube weighting and a bandwidth of span 0.3.

computes both the default nearest neighbor fit and a custom fit that fits a quadratic at 50 data points, using tricube robustness weights with 3 robustness iterations.

displays the orthogonal regression fit for each pair in the lower-triangle scatterplot matrix.

displays the 95% confidence ellipse around the means of the plots of INCOME, CONS, and TAXES against AGE.

displays the 95%, 85%, and 75% confidence ellipses, computed using the chi-square distribution

displays the same graph.

A user specified line can be specified either using a pair of data points (where you specify the X and Y values for each point, or using a simple line specification with a Y-intercept, slope and, optionally, transformation value. Entering data point values overrides and simple line options.

Draws a user specified straight line joining the two points (4,3) and (15,10).

Draws a user specified line with an intercept of 5, a slope of 0.5 and a power transformation on the X series.