Speaking Stata: Creating and varying box plots

dc.creatorCox, Nicholas J.
dc.date2017-04-01T19:37:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T06:47:56Z
dc.descriptionBox plots have been a standard statistical graph since John W. Tukey and his colleagues and students publicized them energetically in the 1970s. In Stata, graph box and graph hbox are commands available to draw box plots, but sometimes neither is sufficiently flexible for drawing some variations on standard box plot designs. This column explains how to use egen to calculate the statistical ingredients needed for box plots and twoway to re-create the plots themselves. That then allows variations such as adding means, connecting medians, or showing all data points beyond certain quantiles.
dc.identifierOther:gr0039
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.143004
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/143004/files/sjart_gr0039.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/143004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/580934
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/143004
dc.titleSpeaking Stata: Creating and varying box plots
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