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st: Re: boxplot outlier labeling


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: boxplot outlier labeling
Date   Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:48:54 -0500

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From: <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: st: boxplot outlier labeling


> Greetings Statalisters -
> Following a perusal of the STATA 8 graphics manual as well as
> searching STATA's help feature, I am unable to determine if the
> outliers in a boxplot can be labeled with, say, a state name.
> In STATA 7, this option was easily obtained via s([varname]) -
> did this option not make the cut with STATA 8 or are there
> intermediate steps I am unaware of??
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Clint Thompson
>

I believe what you are looking for is [G] marker_label_options.

In the following example, the two outliers are labeled with the make of the car:

. use "C:\Stata8\auto.dta", clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. graph box mpg, medtype(line) over(rep78)  mark(1, mlab(make))


I hope this helps,
Scott



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