Plot specific fixed-effect variable with multiple outcomes using coefplot

Question

I run a regression with a fixed-effect that has multiple outcomes. I want to only plot that fixed-effect variable. I don't like the way coefplot does the ticks and labels. Let me give an example.

sysuse auto
reg price i.rep78
coefplot, vertical drop(_cons)

Now the x-ticks are "Repair Record 1978=2", ... "Repair Record 1978=5". This is very lengthy. I will only plot this variable, so I would rather have the "Repair Record 1978" elsewhere, either in title or as a legend. The x-ticks I would rather have only "2", "3", .. "5". How could I achieve something like this the easiest using coefplot?

Answer 1

You can give the coefficients different names with the rename option, and to control the look of the graph you can use twoway options documented in help twoway_options.

Example:

coefplot, vertical drop(_cons) rename(*.rep78 = "") title("Repair Record 1978")

The best way to find out about options in coefplot would be to type in Stata: help coefplot