box-plot or similar

[Rodrigo Briceño]

Dear SPSS users. I am doing a graph that tries to show the regional
differences (24 regions) for the production of hospital discharges in 6
categories (surgical procedures selected). I decided to use box-plot
graph because it allows to show distribution on each category. The thing
is that I can't put all labels (I mean all regions) in the graph, to
show where each region locates in the line. The only labels shown are
those for outliers or extreme values.

Then, I decided to choose another type of graph called Drop-Line. This
is nice too, because allows me to put all regions (all the marks are
small circles under the line), but not so elegant as box-plot.

My dream graph will be a combination of both, where I can have boxplot
and all the circles showing each region. Is there a way to put all
labels in box-plot?
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[ViAnn Beadle]

I can't imagine that the user would be able to see anything with 144 (24
regions*6 categories) labels on a plot. Am I misinterpreting what you want?
Another approach might be to use region as a legend variable using a
different color for each region. Use world95.sav (one of the sample files
distributed with SPSS and compare the two charts from this syntax:


* legend example.
GGRAPH
  /GRAPHDATASET NAME="graphdataset" VARIABLES=climate lifeexpf region
MISSING=LISTWISE
    REPORTMISSING=NO
  /GRAPHSPEC SOURCE=INLINE.
BEGIN GPL
  SOURCE: s=userSource(id("graphdataset"))
  DATA: climate=col(source(s), name("climate"), unit.category())
  DATA: lifeexpf=col(source(s), name("lifeexpf"))
  DATA: region=col(source(s), name("region"), unit.category())
  GUIDE: axis(dim(1), label("Predominant climate"))
  GUIDE: axis(dim(2), label("Average female life expectancy"))
  GUIDE: legend(aesthetic(aesthetic.color), label("Region or economic
group"))
  SCALE: linear(dim(2), include(0))
  ELEMENT: line(position(summary.mean(climate*lifeexpf)))
  ELEMENT: point(position(summary.mean(climate*lifeexpf)), color(region))
END GPL.
* label example.
GGRAPH
  /GRAPHDATASET NAME="graphdataset" VARIABLES=climate lifeexpf region
MISSING=LISTWISE
    REPORTMISSING=NO
  /GRAPHSPEC SOURCE=INLINE.
BEGIN GPL
  SOURCE: s=userSource(id("graphdataset"))
  DATA: climate=col(source(s), name("climate"), unit.category())
  DATA: lifeexpf=col(source(s), name("lifeexpf"))
  DATA: region=col(source(s), name("region"), unit.category())
  GUIDE: axis(dim(1), label("Predominant climate"))
  GUIDE: axis(dim(2), label("Average female life expectancy"))
  SCALE: linear(dim(2), include(0))
  ELEMENT: line(position(summary.mean(climate*lifeexpf)))
  ELEMENT: point(position(summary.mean(climate*lifeexpf)), split(region),
label(region),color(color.black))
END GPL.

Labels are problematic and in this example region has only 6 categories, not
24.

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Rodrigo Briceño
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Subject: box-plot or similar

Dear SPSS users. I am doing a graph that tries to show the regional
differences (24 regions) for the production of hospital discharges in 6
categories (surgical procedures selected). I decided to use box-plot
graph because it allows to show distribution on each category. The thing
is that I can't put all labels (I mean all regions) in the graph, to
show where each region locates in the line. The only labels shown are
those for outliers or extreme values.

Then, I decided to choose another type of graph called Drop-Line. This
is nice too, because allows me to put all regions (all the marks are
small circles under the line), but not so elegant as box-plot.

My dream graph will be a combination of both, where I can have boxplot
and all the circles showing each region. Is there a way to put all
labels in box-plot?
--

__________________________________________________________________

*Rodrigo Briceño*
Project Manager
Sanigest Internacional

[phone] ext. 113  * Oficina* *Costa Rica*
[phone]                  *Fax
*[phone]*                  Celular**
*[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
www.sanigest.com <http://www.sanigest.com/>

MSN: [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
SKYPE: rbriceno1087

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