The surface command attempts to draw a wireframe plot from three variables. var1 specifies the x-coordinate, var2 the y-coordinate and var3 the z-coordinate. Alternatively the function can draw a circle at each point and add a straight line going down to the lowest point. This function can handle data that is not in the form of a matrix of values. However if there are too many x- and y- values the function will attempt to round the dataset values into a more reasonable spread of values. This will result in very messy figures. However in such a case it is the impression that is needed. Many other statistical packages require a full matrix of values. This is not a problem for the nowire option. At present the state of rotating the diagram is limited to interchanging the axes. This is an update of the routine published in STB 51 (gr39). Users of Stata 10 may use surface; for earlier versions of Stata, use surface7.
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S448501.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 10 (version 7 for surface) Date of creation: 06 Jan 2005 Date of revision:
09 Jul 2008 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s448501
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