Re: st: RE: Putting 'n of cases' as labels in boxplots

[Donald Spady <dspady@ualberta.ca>]

Thanks Nick.  It works, slightly differently than I had considered, now I 
just have to put it in my context.
Don


At 04:36 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote:

> You could try hacking -graph box-. That
> would give you something to tackle in
> the holiday season.
>
> I'd go for a upstream solution, something
> like
>
> sysuse auto
> bysort rep78 : gen size = " (n = " + string(_N) + ")"
> egen Rep78 = group(rep78 size), label
> graph box mpg, over(Rep78)
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Donald Spady MD, MSc
>
> >   I want to create boxplots that have as the X legend the 'n'
> > of cases that
> > comprised the boxplot at the bottom of the graph.  I do not
> > see from the
> > menus how to do that and cannot find anything in the manuals.  Is it
> > possible to do?  Given Stata's versatility I am sure it is
> > possible somehow.
>
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