Boxplots and casenum labels

[Garry Anderson]

Dear List,

Is there an option to exclude the labeling of outliers or extreme values
with the casenumber from boxplots, other than editing the chart? The
options box seems to have this option greyed out. I am using v17.0.1 and
Graphs->Legacy Dialogs->Boxplot.

Regards, Garry

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[ViAnn Beadle]

If you want to use the legacy dialogs, you'll have to use a chart template
which hides the data labels. You can create it from the chart editor by
checking the Display checkbox for Data Labels in the Save Template dialog.
Because the legacy dialogs use EXPLORE which doesn't have a template
subcommand, you need to execute a SET command once to set the template
before creating your boxplots. The command will look something like this:

set ctemplate="C:\Users\Vi\Desktop\nodatalabels.sgt".

It will remain in effect until you turn it off which you can do by

        Set ctemplate=none.

If you use Chart Builder, it's much simpler to do this but you still need to
edit the syntax created from Chart Builder. Within the GPL generated for
boxplots, look for the ELEMENT statement which looks like this:

  ELEMENT: schema(position(bin.quantile.letter(gender*salary)), label(id))

The label function is used to label the points by case number. Delete the
function so the statement looks like this:

  ELEMENT: schema(position(bin.quantile.letter(gender*salary)))

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Garry Anderson
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:45 AM
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Subject: Boxplots and casenum labels

Dear List,

Is there an option to exclude the labeling of outliers or extreme values
with the casenumber from boxplots, other than editing the chart? The
options box seems to have this option greyed out. I am using v17.0.1 and
Graphs->Legacy Dialogs->Boxplot.

Regards, Garry

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[Peck, Jon]

ViAnn has answered the how-to question, but to explain the checkbox, the Options dialog in the legacy charts is used for multiple chart types.  The checkbox in question is always disabled for boxplots.  It is only enabled for scatterplots.  That is admittedly a little confusing.

 

From the help.

Display chart with case labels. This option is available only when you are defining a scatterplot and have specified a variable for Label Cases By field in the main dialog box. If selected, the value labels (or values if labels are not defined) of the specified variable are displayed in the chart as point labels.

 

HTH,

Jon

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Garry Anderson
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:45 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Boxplots and casenum labels

 

Dear List,

 

Is there an option to exclude the labeling of outliers or extreme values

with the casenumber from boxplots, other than editing the chart? The

options box seems to have this option greyed out. I am using v17.0.1 and

Graphs->Legacy Dialogs->Boxplot.

 

Regards, Garry

 

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