Thanks for the plug. -stripplot- is on SSC.
For comparison of two distributions I would add -qqplot- and -kdensity-.
Nick
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Ronan Conroy
On 27 Aug 2008, at 12:16, Rajesh Tharyan wrote:
> Hi sorry about the post with no link. Not sure what happened
>
> http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/bihistog.htm
Looking at this, I am still not sure that this is the best way of
displaying the data. For several reasons
1. Histogram shape is notoriously sensitive to the width and starting
position of bins.
2. The eye is better at comparing side-by-side plots where position on
the same scale is used to make the comparision
3. A histogram does not show the data
4. A histogram cannot be used to infer descriptive statistics
I would recommend, as an alternative, Nick Cox's -stripplot- with -
vertical- and -box- options. Suddenly you see far more of the data,
and are in a far better position to make comparisons.
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