Thanks to Kit Baum as ever, stripplot has been updated on SSC. The code has not been updated since 2014, but the help file is bigger and shows a lot of rewriting. Some of the size reflects a personal habit of letting a help file be. in Frederick Mosteller's terms, the zeroth draft of a paper.
Stata 8.2 is needed. That's not demanding in 2016.
To install, use
and to update use ssc or adoupdate.
In this case, the project, or perhaps paper, has been evolving since 1999. With good fortune, I may get to writing some of it up in the Stata Journal in the next couple of years. stripplot started out in life as onewplot, that name itself reflecting the filename.ext or 8.3 rule for filenames that bit under MS/DOS and so limited Stata filenames. (I regularly come across young people who have no idea what MS/DOS means, but that's fine. They don't need to punch 80 column cards either.)
onewplot was intended to do some things that the then graph, oneway could not do, or not do well. To see what graph, oneway does you can call up
But after that a big twist in the road led towards the present, and the best short summary now is that stripplot is, functionally, a superset of the official command dotplot. (It never started with a clone of that code, but it is now aimed to do what dotplot does, and more.)
The plain or vanilla uses of stripplot are fairly mundane, but its best uses lie in combining options, as when miniature quantile plots have boxes for median and quartiles and reference lines for means superimposed. (On the latter, searching here for "quantile-box" will yield examples.)
The preamble to the help has been restructured, and the examples can be run in sequence using Stata's own datasets.
The list of references is elephantine by some standards, and shows up a personal pleasure in discovering examples of, and variation on, strip plots under many other names in literature old and new, and in odd corners too. There is plenty of scope for more references.
Philip Ender
William Dupont
Kit Baum
Maarten Buis
Ronán Conroy
Marc Kaulisch
David Airey
Oliver Jones
Fredrik Norström
Marcello Pagano
Dionyssios Mintzopoulos
Judith Abrams
Vince Wiggins
Frank Harrell
Alona Armstrong
variously provided bug reports, specific suggestions, pertinent references and encouraging noises, which I am more than happy to acknowledge once more.
Stata 8.2 is needed. That's not demanding in 2016.
To install, use
Code:
ssc install stripplot
In this case, the project, or perhaps paper, has been evolving since 1999. With good fortune, I may get to writing some of it up in the Stata Journal in the next couple of years. stripplot started out in life as onewplot, that name itself reflecting the filename.ext or 8.3 rule for filenames that bit under MS/DOS and so limited Stata filenames. (I regularly come across young people who have no idea what MS/DOS means, but that's fine. They don't need to punch 80 column cards either.)
onewplot was intended to do some things that the then graph, oneway could not do, or not do well. To see what graph, oneway does you can call up
Code:
sysuse auto sort rep78 graph7 mpg, by(rep78) oneway
The plain or vanilla uses of stripplot are fairly mundane, but its best uses lie in combining options, as when miniature quantile plots have boxes for median and quartiles and reference lines for means superimposed. (On the latter, searching here for "quantile-box" will yield examples.)
The preamble to the help has been restructured, and the examples can be run in sequence using Stata's own datasets.
The list of references is elephantine by some standards, and shows up a personal pleasure in discovering examples of, and variation on, strip plots under many other names in literature old and new, and in odd corners too. There is plenty of scope for more references.
Philip Ender
William Dupont
Kit Baum
Maarten Buis
Ronán Conroy
Marc Kaulisch
David Airey
Oliver Jones
Fredrik Norström
Marcello Pagano
Dionyssios Mintzopoulos
Judith Abrams
Vince Wiggins
Frank Harrell
Alona Armstrong
variously provided bug reports, specific suggestions, pertinent references and encouraging noises, which I am more than happy to acknowledge once more.
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