on 6/8/02 11:14 AM, Olivia Keiser at [email protected] wrote:
> Is it possible to omit the extreme values in the boxplot?
>
> I've found the option 'symbol(i)' where the outliers are not plotted but
> the axis scale still remains large (and with yscale I can't make it smaller).
> If I include the 'if', the graph looks nicer, but all the extreme values
> are not included to calculate the boxplots.
You could use an -if- condition to exclude them. Stata will not resize a
graph so that it is smaller than the data space.
However, one of the important points of a boxplot is precisely that it does
show outliers. I would at least add a note that outliers at (specify values)
not shown, as people will automatically think that if there are no outliers
visible, then there aren't any.
Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2329)
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