Stata included scope for this in its old graphics.
. sort rep78
. graph7 mpg, box by(rep78) vwidth
Thanks to Maarten for his -stripplot- example. This doesn't vary box sizes, meaning widths, but does make it evident that different groups have different numbers of values.
There are no plans to include varying box widths in -stripplot-.
Nick
[email protected]
Maarten buis
What about this example from Nick Cox's -stripplot-? You
can download -stripplot- by typing in Stata
-ssc install stripplot-.
*--------------------- begin example -------------------------
sysuse auto, clear
stripplot mpg, over(rep78) box(bfcolor(black) blcolor(white) ///
barw(0.2)) boffset(-0.2) stack h(0.5)
*----------------------- end example -------------------------
--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> For an analysis comparing two groups of hospitals I have
> generated some nice box plots
>
> graph box yvar, over(group) ...
>
> One concerning issue is that the two groups identified
> by -group- are highly imbalanced - something like 4000
> vs 50. Thus my co-author writes: "I think the boxplots
> should be drawn to reflect the actual number of hospitals
> as they are misleading right now.
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