Wallace, John
>
> I'm still in the early stages of exploring Stata, but I
> haven't found a way
> yet to get box plots to be generated the way I prefer. The
> built-in "box"
> parameter in the graph command comes close, in that the
> whiskers encompass
> 1.5*IQR and further outliers are plotted individually - but
> you can't use a
> by(groupvar) to get an array of related plots.
> The hbox addition I found in the STB files allows the by(groupvar)
> arrangement, but the whiskers encompass the entire range of
> data, rather
> than a function of the IQR. This allows true outliers to
> dominate the graph
> in an undesirable way, IMO
> Is there a third way out there? Or am I going to have to
> learn how to
> program ados to get boxplots the way I like them?
>
One possibility: copy -hbox- and fiddle with its output.
Nick
[email protected]
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
