Jose Maria Pacheco de Souza
> is it possible to create a boxplot graph where the boxes
> are separated in
> the x axis keeping distances according to the arithmetic
> distribution of the
> x variable?
> For example, if x==10, 20, 100, then the distance between
> box1 to box2
> should be 10 x units, and the distance of box2 to box3
> should be 80 x units.
> I have both version7 and version8.
I don't think so. But you can go
dotplot yvar , by(xvar) center median bar
and -xvar- is treated literally, that is, as numeric not
categorical.
A -dotplot- often shows interesting or important
fine structure omitted by a box plot.
Nick
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