Re: st: problem with boxplots

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 13:04 27-10-2003, Sama Wilson Nchang bigina wrote:
> How can I plot five different box plots on the same
> graph using the new version of stata (i.e. version 8).
> I would like to know how to do this using both the
> command window and the menu.
Checkout the Graphics manual for the section "by_option" (page 77) and the 
examples in the section on "graph box". You will end up with something like

graph box YVAR, by(BYVAR).

An alternative could be

graph box YVAR, over(BYVAR).


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