Speaking Stata: Creating and varying box plots

Stata Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 478-496

  Cox, Nicholas J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bars; Box plots; Dispersion diagrams; Distributions; Egen; Gr0039; Graphics; Percentile; Quantile; Range; Twoway

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349602117     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0900900309     Document Type: Article

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