Re: st: RE: RE: RE: vwidth in old boxplot graphics

[skreisel <skreisel@neuro.ma.uni-heidelberg.de>]

Thanks for the prompt and detailed reply. Evidently most things have 
gotten better as versions progress whereas some have gotten more 
difficult. Stata's advantages, among others, is its ability to quickly 
explore and visually highlight data (especially important with the 
non-statistical biomedical crowd). Perhaps subsequent versions will 
reinstate features such as [graph y box, by(x) vwidth] or similar things 
for categorical data, such as mosaic plots (see 
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html), making crosstabulations 
more readable. Till then I guess its down to using Stata 7.0 and to do 
without fancy graphics.
Regards
Stefan Kreisel
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