For the Y-axis you use custom axis labels. For example:
sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. qui sum price
. gen p2 = price/r(max)
. graph box p2, medtype(line) over(rep) ylabel(.1 "10%" .2 "20%" .3 "30%" .4
"40%" .5 "50%" .6 "60%" .7 "70%" .8 "80%" .9 "90%" 1 "100%") mark(1, mlab(p2) )
hope this helps,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Harvey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: st: Axis scale for boxplot
> Dear Stata listers,
>
> I have a data set of exam scores (knowledge of skilled birth attendants
> from different countries) expressed as percentage of questions answered
> correctly. I want to create boxplots that show the scores from each
> country in a different boxplot. Creating the plot itself is no
> problem. However, the scores are stored as decimals (75.2% is stored as
> 0.752), so my Y axis displays as .0, .2, .4,... 1.0. I would like it to
> display instead as 0%, 20%, 40%,... 100%. Is there any command that will
> allow me to do this? If at all possible, I would like the "%" character to
> be included (20%, not just 20). I would like labels for outliers to
> display the same way (i.e., 27.5% instead of 0.275).
>
> I could create a new variable: scorep = score*100 but I would like to avoid
> this if possible, since I am also reporting out a variety of sub-scores
> (e.g., "total" knowledge, knowledge of labor monitoring, knowledge of
> pre-eclampsia, etc.). If this is the only option, I would have to create
> newvars for each sub-score in addition to the total score.
>
> I am using Stata 8.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Steve Harvey
>
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