topic Re: Suppress symbols in BoxPlot in New SAS User

Suppress symbols in BoxPlot

Batman — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:14:05 GMT

Can I suppress the mean or median symbol in Proc BoxPlot?

Re: Suppress symbols in BoxPlot

ballardw — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:48:51 GMT

@Batman wrote:

Can I suppress the mean or median symbol in Proc BoxPlot?

Time to move to Prog SGPLOT and the VBOX or HBOX plot. That allows suppressing either or both with the NOMEAN and NOMEDIAN option.

Re: Suppress symbols in BoxPlot

Batman — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:25:29 GMT

Yes, SGPLOT does allow me to suppress the mean. Is there away to label the symbols on the chart, so the reader can know the "I" stands for the median?

Re: Suppress symbols in BoxPlot

ballardw — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 20:39:03 GMT

@Batman wrote:
Yes, SGPLOT does allow me to suppress the mean. Is there away to label the symbols on the chart, so the reader can know the "I" stands for the median?

Since "I" is not a default associated with medians you may have to share some of your code.

One of the very nice features of the newer SGPLOT over the older procedures Gplot/Gchart/Boxplot is the ability to, within some limits, overlay multiple plots. And one of those is designed to place text at graph positions. The trick may be getting the coordinates for something like a summary value like mean or median, not really difficult, and then combining with the data to plot. A brief example that shows the word "Median" in place of the bar in a vertical box plot.

proc summary data=sashelp.class nway;
   class sex;
   var height;
   output out=work.summary (drop=_:) mean= median=/autoname;
run;

data work.plot;
   set sashelp.class
       work.summary
   ;
   if height_median ne . then medtxt = 'Median';
run;

proc sgplot data=work.plot;
   vbox height /category=sex nomedian;
   text x=sex y=height_median text=medtxt;
run;

Re: Suppress symbols in BoxPlot

Ksharp — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:05:09 GMT

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/08/28/schematic-box-plot.html