Don,
Thanks for the clarification. I see what you mean now. After all a picture
is worth a thousand words... I will check out whether SPSS can do this...
John
Donald Burrill wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, John Poole wrote in part:
>
> > I see the value of a graphic display of distributions; however,
> > given the large number of measures, it does not seem practical
> > (overwhelming).
>
> This may be true with SPSS. Minitab offers (or used to offer) a
> one-line version of a boxplot, something like this:
> -----( + )-------
> showing the minimum (left end), lower hinge ("("), median ("+"), upper
> hinge (")"), and maximum (right end), and would plot a whole collection
> of these (for different variables, or for different subgroups of the
> data) on a common horizontal axis. If you're using one line per
> variable anyway, it's not much more daunting (to me, anyway) to report
> a table of results like this:
>
> Variable Mean SD boxplot
>
> Var1 17.5 8.23 ---( + )--
> Var2 20.6 10.14 ---( + )---
>
> which you might want to arrange in sections each of which has a common
> boxplot axes and a set of somehow-comparable variables. Minitab would
> give you the variable name and boxplot; I think you might have to edit
> in the mean and s.d., but I can't check that out until I re-install
> Minitab on my new computer (the hard drive died in my former PC last
> month, and having just moved I haven't yet found my original Minitab
> disks... sigh). I do not recall whether SPSS produces boxplots, and in
> particular one-line displays like this.
>
> Good luck! -- Don.
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