Re: st: weighted boxplot ?

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Thanks Nick, and Maarten - I would not have stumbled
across either of these solutions on my own.

cheers,
Jeph

Nick Cox wrote:
> 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 n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> 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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