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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: Alternatives to box plots |
Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:16:46 +0000 |
On 21 Mar 2013, at 13:24, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
A long and concurrent thread starting at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-03/msg00838.html centres on t tests and other methods applied to a problem with obstetrics data. One of various issues raised is the merits of box plots, including postings by David Hoaglin, Jay Verkuilen and myself. My evaluation is that our views are much closer than may have appeared. I am taking this out of that thread so that the graphical issues can be a little more easily discussed by anyone so inclined, If box plots are oversold -- or at least (vacuously) not a panacea -- then alternatives include -dotplot- (official) allows annotation with mean or median-stripplot- (SSC) allows marginal boxes and bars; more options than -dotplot--devnplot- (SSC) a plot with ANOVA-like flavour showing individual values relative to means (or any other summary of level) -qplot- (SJ) quantiles! Nick * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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