Thanks for the plug. That was my reading of the question too.
By the way, the official command -dotplot- also has -bar mean- and -bar median- options that offer rudimentary mean-based confidence intervals and median-and-quartiles boxes, respectively.
I think it's fair to say, however, that -dotplot- as revised for Stata 8 (and little changed since) was a fairly literal translation of the previous version and entered little into the spirit of the new graphics.
-stripplot- can in total offer more. There are detailed comments in its help, so I will stop there.
Nick
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Sam Norton
sorry, missing parentheses in second example. It should be
***
egen meanmpg = mean(mpg), by(foreign)
egen sdmpg = sd(mpg), by(foreign)
gen lb = meanmpg - sdmpg
gen ub = meanmpg + sdmpg
stripplot mpg, over(for) box stack centre vertical ///
addplot(sc meanmpg foreign || rcap lb ub foreign)
***
2009/5/15 Sam Norton <[email protected]>:
> I don't really understand what is wanted, but you might find Nick
> Cox's -stripplot- available from SSC helpful. For example,
>
> ***
> sysuse auto, clear
> stripplot mpg, over(foreign) box stack centre vertical // overlays box plot
> stripplot mpg, over(foreign) bar stack centre vertical // overlays
> mean and 95% CI
> ***
>
> Alternatively, to display mean with bars showing +/- 1SD you could:
>
> ***
> egen meanmpg = mean(mpg), by(foreign)
> egen sdmpg = sdmpg, by(foreign)
> gen lb = meanmpg - sdmpg
> gen ub = meanmpg + sdmpg
> stripplot mpg, over(for) box stack centre vertical addplot(sc meanmpg
> foreign || rcap lb ub foreign)
> ***
>
> 2009/5/14 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>
>> Ok, overlays between Stata graphs work best with the -twoway- family, but
>> -graph box- does not have membership status there. So let me guess what your
>> best shot at the prob could be:
>>
>> *************
>> sysuse bpwide, clear
>>
>> //before
>> graph box bp_before,/*
>> */ over(sex) name(first, replace) /*
>> */ nodraw
>>
>> scatter bp_before sex, /*
>> */name(second, replace) nodraw
>>
>> //after
>> graph box bp_after,/*
>> */ over(sex) name(third, replace) /*
>> */ nodraw
>>
>> scatter bp_after sex, /*
>> */name(fourth, replace) nodraw
>>
>> //combine 'em
>> gr combine first second third fourth
>> *************
Amr Al Sayed" <[email protected]>
>>> Thanks for your help. I want complete representation of all the data set
>>> in the graph as scatter plot with added indicator bar showing the mean and
>>> sd of each scatter plot.
>>>
>>> I found your idea of combining box plot and graph bar in a single figure
>>> also working. Then, my question is:
>>> could you help me with making box plot and scatter plot (instead of bar
>>> chart) in a single figure?
>
>>> --- On Fri, 5/15/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>> You can stack inside the -graph bar-
>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>> graph bar (mean) bp_before bp_after (sd) bp_before
>>>> bp_after, over(sex) stack
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>> but apart from that, can you rephrase your request? I
>>>> really do not get what
>>>> you want...
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amr Al Sayed"
>>>> > It worked! However, I want to show the data as scatter
>>>> plot with all the
>>>> > values are represented as dots plus an indicator bar
>>>> beside every scatter
>>>> > blot to show the mean and sd. If it is not possible,
>>>> then I can use your
>>>> > idea of combining box plot with scatter plot as the
>>>> 2nd graph to the
>>>> > right.
>>>> > So, could you help with making scatter plot instead of
>>>> graph bar (on the
>>>> > 2nd graph)
>>>> > OR to add the sd value to the top of each graph bar as
>>>> a whiskers?
>>>> >
>>>> > --- On Thu, 5/14/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
>>>> >> Not sure how a scatter plot can have bars, but
>>>> here is
>>>> >> something you could
>>>> >> try:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *************
>>>> >> sysuse bpwide, clear
>>>> >>
>>>> >> graph box bp_before bp_after,/*
>>>> >> */ over(sex) name(first, replace) /*
>>>> >> */ nodraw
>>>> >> graph bar (mean) bp_before bp_after /*
>>>> >> */(sd) bp_before bp_after, over(sex)/*
>>>> >> */ name(second, replace) nodraw
>>>> >>
>>>> >> gr combine first second
>>>> >> *************
>>>> >> Im Auftrag von Amr Al Sayed
>>>> >> I have simple problem with transforming a box plot
>>>> of two
>>>> >> continuous
>>>> >> variables (y1 and y2) measured over 4 time points
>>>> (x, with
>>>> >> x is a
>>>> >> categorical variable 0,1, 2, 3) into scatter graph
>>>> with bar
>>>> >> indicating their
>>>> >> means and standard deviation. The rationale is a
>>>> more
>>>> >> informative way of
>>>> >> data display.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I used the stata command (Stata 9.2): graph box y1
>>>> y2,
>>>> >> over(x)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Could you help me to display my data as
>>>> scatterplot instead
>>>> >> of blind box?
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