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How to use jitter

How to use jitter - Stata Tutorial

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How to use jitter

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- [Instructor] Let's explore Stata's jitter option. Jitter is an option that can be used in any Stata scatterplot. The purpose of jitter is to create random, spherical noise around data points. The ability to move data points randomly around their true origin can be useful in several scenarios. For example, you may find that you have a lot of overlapping data in a very concentrated space on your graph. In such a scenario, you may find it hard to clearly distinguish between different data points. Alternatively, you may have confidential data that you want to display on a scatterplot but you don't want to reveal where the true data points actually are. In both cases, the jitter option can help. Here's a graphical example of the first scenario. We wish to scatterplot two binary variables against each other. However, all data points are concentrated in four particular coordinates. In this example, we're unable to…

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