Yesterday, Andrew Gelman placed this on his blog:
"I'd love if someone else were to write my article, tentatively titled
"Better than a boxplot," with the following abstract: "We demonstrate
graphical options that dominate the boxplot. We hope that, once these
alternatives are understood, boxplots are never used again." But I
have a horrible feeling I'm going to have to write this article
itself."
One response was this:
Jesse | October 9, 2009 10:10 PM | Reply
Here is the first image that comes up when you google it:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fx_files/23661/3/distributionPlot.png
The one on the bottom left is pretty great.
Great, indeed. Perhaps Nick Cox, the great Stata GraphMaker, or
someone else could make a Stata program to do this?
Fred
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