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Re: st: meansdplot outliers
From
Andrea lopez <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: meansdplot outliers
Date
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:04:16 -0500
Hi all,
The code is from UCLA ATS. I totally agree with your observation that
the outliers affect the mean and standard deviation.
Can anyone offer some guidance on how to edit the code of a command
downloaded with find it?
Best,
Andrea F. Lopez
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please explain the provenance of -meansdplot-, as requested in the FAQ.
>
> You could clone the code and edit it to suppress what you don't want.
> Take responsibility then for both the code and what it does.
>
> (If you have dubious large outliers, they may also affect means and SDs....)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 18 February 2014 20:44, Andrea F Lopez Luzuriaga
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it possible to delete the outliers from the meansdplot?
>>
>> I know that editing the graph it is possible to hide the outliers. The problem is that I am using an income distribution database, so I have very large outliers that mess with the y-axis scale. I would like to graph only the mean and standard deviation.
>>
>> Andrea Lopez
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