On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Olivia Keiser wrote:
> Is it possible to omit the extreme values in the boxplot?
>
> I've found the option 'symbol(i)' where the outliers are not plotted but
> the axis scale still remains large (and with yscale I can't make it smaller).
> If I include the 'if', the graph looks nicer, but all the extreme values
> are not included to calculate the boxplots.
>
> I would need something that includes all the values for the calculation,
> but only plots the boxplots on a reasonable scale (like tmax() in sts graph).
>
> Thanks for your help
> Olivia
If you want to program it by hand
you could just change the low values to be just outside the lower bar and
the large values to bo just above the upper bar. And then plot with the
invisible option.
Here is some details:
-centile ..., centile(25 50 75)-
leaves behind locals (se -return list-)
that can be used.
I think stata defines the points to be plotted as single points as those
larger than median + 1.5 * IQR
(and similar at small values)
via centile you can get hold of these two values.
Call them `u' and `l'
If your vaiable of intresset is X1
you could do:
centile X1, centile(25 50 75)
local u = `r(c_2)' + 1.5*( `r(c_3)'-`r(c_1)' )
local l = `r(c_2)' - 1.5*( `r(c_3)'-`r(c_1)' )
gen X2=X1
replace X2= `u' + 0.1 if X2> `u'
replace X2= `l' - 0.1 if X2< `l'
gr X2, box symbol(i)
Best Lars
PS On a PC you might have to change my ' to a more vertical looking
character.
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