st: RE: Putting a rug underneath a boxplot

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Basically you are in a cul-de-sac. 

You need to retreat and knit your own using -twoway-. 

See for example 

SJ-9-3  gr0039  . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Creating and varying box plots
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q3/09   SJ 9(3):478--496                                 (no commands)
        explains how to use egen to calculate the statistical
        ingredients needed for box plots and variations of box
        plots; shows the use of twoway to then create the plots

or see -stripplot- from SSC: 

sysuse auto, clear
gen pipe = "|"
stripplot price, over(rep78) box(barw(0.3)) ms(none) mla(pipe) boffset(0.3)


Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Oliver Jones

the task is to create a boxplot with a rug underneath it.
My first attempt was to do something like this:

************************* begin example *************************
sysuse auto, clear

graph hbox price, ///
		ylab(minmax,nogrid) yscale(off) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		nodraw name(boxplot, replace)
	gr_edit .varaxis.draw_view.setstyle, style(no)
	
gen byte y_value = 1
tw spike y_value price, ///
		fysize(20) xlab(minmax) yscale(off) ylab(0(1)1, nogrid) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		nodraw name(rug_plot, replace)
		
	
graph combine boxplot rug_plot, ///
		ysize(3) iscale(1) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		rows(2) imargin(b=0 t=0) name(gcom1, replace)

************************* end example *************************


Two thing still give me trouble:

First:
The gap between the boxplot and the rug is too big.

Second:
When -graph combine- ing 10 of these "box-rug-plot"
the rug is so huge that the boxplots are not visible anymore.

I allready had a look at "Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions" N.J. Cox (2004) in The Stata 
Journal Issue 4 Number 1 pp.66-88, but the way he puts a rug underneath a histogram is not 
possible for a boxplot, or is it and I just don't know how to do it?


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