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st: RE: Re: Re: Displaying mean in boxplot


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Re: Re: Displaying mean in boxplot
Date   Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:12:17 +0100

One way to do this through marker symbols, as requested, is through
-stripplot- from SSC. 

sysuse auto, clear

egen mean = mean(mpg), by(foreign)

stripplot mpg, over(foreign) box stack centre height(0.2) ms(sh)
addplot(scatter foreign mean, ms(Dh) msize(*3)) 

With more work, you can come arbitrarily close to more conventional
forms of the box plot. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Martin Weiss

Admittedly, my earlier solution did not give you the dot you were
looking 
for, but a reference line. If you have Stata 10, fire up the graph
editor 
afterwards, use the -add marker- tool and place the marker onto the 
reference line. Then highlight the reference line and kill it...
If -gr box- were part of the -twoway- family of graphs, one could
imagine 
overlaying it with a -scatteri- to get the mean onto the graph more
reliably 
than this...

Martin Weiss

> **********
> sysuse auto, clear
> su price, mean
> graph box price, box(1, fcolor(none)) yline(`r(mean)')
> **********

Aca N.T.

>> Does anyone know how to put mean (preferably marked as dot) within
the
>> box using -gr box-?

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