Now my best advice is to use -stripplot- from SSC. Its default is to
show
strips of data points, but you can jitter or stack and add boxes or
bars.
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(1978 Automobile Data)
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You can use a -by()- option as well. I'd recommend showing the data,
but you can blank it out with -ms(none)-.
By default the bars are offset from the data which may answer your
last question.
Joseph Wagner
I created box plot graph with of 3 X variables over the same Y variable
but was then asked to produce a similar graph this time using mean (not
median) and +/- 95% CI. I don't think Stata can do this but thanks to
a post by Nick three years ago, I was able to (sort of) create these:
egen mean = mean(cont), by(cat)
egen sd = sd(cont), by(cat)
gen upper = mean + sd
gen lower = mean - sd
scatter mean cat || rcap upper lower cat
. . . is the example Nick gave but how would (or could I?) do this for
three different X variables (in Nick's example I suppose it would be 3
different 'cont' variables) on the same graph? I can do
this for two but not 3 which brings me to my next problem:
The box plots I created earlier were each side by side for the same
value of X (rather than on top of one another) but the two -rcap- graphs
are on top of each other making it impossible to differentiate
the two lines (three would be even worse). Is there a way to separate
these lines or do I need to graph these data in another way altogether?
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