Producing High-Quality Figures Using SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics Procedures

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Line Plots

3.1 Introduction

Line plots, often used to display the overall mean response pattern of subjects

in a sample by time, is one of the most commonly used plots in scientic

research and publications. This chapter illustrates how to produce high-quality

line plots, including simple line plots with only mean values by time, and

more complicated line plots with standard deviation (SD) or maximum and

minimum value bars displayed together with the mean values.

The same line plots are produced using both PROC GLOT in SAS/GRAPH

and PROC SGPLOT in ODS Graphics. The features, pros, and cons associ-

ated with the two procedures in producing l ...