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Cross-references
See Chapter 1, “EViews 5.1 Enhanced Graph Customization”, on page 33 for a discussion of graph options in EViews.
See also axis (p. 75), datelabel, scale, and options (p. 117).
spike
Command || Coef View | Graph Command | Group View | Matrix View | Rowvector View | Series View | Sym View | Vector View
Display spike graph view of data, or change existing graph object type to spike.
The spike graph view of a series or group creates spike graphs for all specified series or matrix columns.
Syntax
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spike arg1 [arg2 arg3 ...] |
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object_name.spike(options) |
Graph Proc: |
graph_name.spike(options) |
Options
Template and printing options
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Use appearance options and copy text and shading from |
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Print the spike graph. |
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The options which support the “-” may be proceeded by a “+” or “-” indicating whether to turn on or off the option. The “+” is optional.
Scale options
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Dual scaling with no crossing. The first series is scaled |
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Stacked spike graph. Each segment represents the |
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Spike graph for the first series listed and a line graph for |
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mPlot spikes in multiple graphs (will override the “l” option). Not for use with an existing graph object.
Panel options
The following options apply when graphing panel structured data.
panel=arg |
Panel data display: “stack” (stack the cross-sections), |
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“individual” or “1” (separate graph for each cross-sec- |
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single graph; one time axis), “mean” (plot means |
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across cross-sections), “mean1se” (plot mean and +/- |
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1 standard deviation summaries), “mean2sd” (plot |
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mean and +/- 2 s.d. summaries), “mean3sd” (plot |
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mean and +/- 3 s.d. summaries), “median” (plot |
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median across cross-sections), “med25” (plot median |
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and +/- .25 quantiles), “med10” (plot median and +/- |
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.10 quantiles), “med05” (plot median +/- .05 quan- |
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tiles), “med025” (plot median +/- .025 quantiles), |
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Examples
group g1 gdp cons m1
g1.spike(d)
plots line graphs of the three series in group G1 using dual scaling.
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matrix1.spike(t=mygra)
displays spike graphs of the columns of MATRIX1 using the graph object MYGRA as a template.
graph1.spike(d)
changes GRAPH1 so that it contains spike graphs of each of the series in the original graph, using dual scaling.
g1.spike(o=midnight, b, w)
creates a spike graph of the group G1, using the settings of the predefined template “midnight”, applying the bold and wide modifiers.
Cross-references
See Chapter 1, “EViews 5.1 Enhanced Graph Customization”, on page 33 for a detailed discussion of graphs in EViews.
See also graph for graph declaration and additional graph types.
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Apply a template to a graph object.
If you apply template to a multiple graph object, the template options will be applied to each graph in the multiple graph. If the template graph is a multiple graph, the options of the first graph will be used.
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graph_name.template(options) template |
Follow the name of the graph to which you want to apply the template options with a period, the keyword template, and the name of a graph template. template may be one of the predefined template keywords: “default” (current global defaults), “classic”, “modern”, “reverse”, “midnight”, “spartan”, “monochrome”, or a named graph in the workfile.
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The options which support the “-” may be proceeded by a “+” or “-” indicating whether to turn on or off the option. The “+” is optional.
Examples
gra_cs.template gra_gdp
applies the option settings in the graph object GRA_GDP to the graph GRA_CS. Text and line shading options from GRA_GDP will be applied to GRA_CS, but the characteristics of existing text and line/shade objects in GRA_CS will not be modified. Text and shading objects include those added with the addtext (p. 70) or draw (p. 87) commands.
g1.template(t) mygraph1
applies the option settings of MYGRAPH1, and all text and shadings in the template graph, to the graph G1. Note that the “t” option overwrites any existing text and shading objects in the target graph.
graph1.template(e) modern
applies the predefined template “modern” to GRAPH1, also changing the settings of existing text and line/shade objects in the graph.
graph1.template(e, b, w) reverse
applies the predefined template “reverse” to GRAPH1, with the bold and wide modifiers. Any existing text and line/shade objects in GRAPH1 are also modified to use the object settings of the monochrome template.
graph1.template(-w) monochrome
applies the monochrome settings to GRAPH1, removing the wide modifier.
If you are using a boxplot as a template for another graph type, or vice versa, note that the graph types and boxplot specific attributes will not be changed. In addition, when the “t” option is used, vertical lines or shaded areas will not be copied between the graphs, since the horizontal scales differ.
Cross-references
See “Graph Templates” on page 38 for additional discussion.