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st: Boxplots - avoiding the box in a strata with a small number of observations
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Richard Hiscock <[email protected]>
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st: Boxplots - avoiding the box in a strata with a small number of observations
Date
Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:37:51 +1000
Hi Statalisters,
I have continuous data (plasma level of drug) in patients, who received a dose determined by body weight (in five strata), measured at three time points.
Whilst the lower strata have 40+ patients the highest two levels the number of patients is very small n = 5 & 2.
To graphically present the plasma levels I would prefer to show individual data points but using dotplots however the command doesn't seem to allow for over commands (with data now in the long form).
dotplot plasma_level , over(time) over(wtstrata)
I can achieve close to what I want using boxplots, however I feel that boxes for the strata with 5 & 2 only observations is not appropriate. Is there anyway to have individual data points displayed for these strata? The command I'm using in Stata 12 is
gr box Baseline Firstdose Thirddose , over(wtstrata)
Any help or other presentation suggestions would be much appreciated
thanks Richard Hiscock
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