A possible third way.
Philip Ender's box command will plot several box plots together with, what I
believe, are the correct whiskers.
findit boxplot will bring it up.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace, John" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:54 PM
Subject: st: Other Box plots
> I'm still in the early stages of exploring Stata, but I haven't found a way
> yet to get box plots to be generated the way I prefer. The built-in "box"
> parameter in the graph command comes close, in that the whiskers encompass
> 1.5*IQR and further outliers are plotted individually - but you can't use a
> by(groupvar) to get an array of related plots.
> The hbox addition I found in the STB files allows the by(groupvar)
> arrangement, but the whiskers encompass the entire range of data, rather
> than a function of the IQR. This allows true outliers to dominate the graph
> in an undesirable way, IMO
> Is there a third way out there? Or am I going to have to learn how to
> program ados to get boxplots the way I like them?
>
> Thanks for any assistance
>
> John Wallace
>
> Research Associate
> Affymetrix, Inc
> Santa Clara, CA
>
>
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