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llt34c
Calcite | Level 5

I have output my interactive means from the glimmix procedure of SAS and am trying to make box plots from these means. Please see the attached. I don't understand why they aren't coming through as box plots. See my code below. I am wanting to look and see if there are any outliers in this data set and thus, am wanting to visualize with box plots. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

Proc SGPlot data=Means;
Vbox Mu/ Category=ParityGrpStrat1 Group=Trt;
Run;

 

 Outliers.png

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WarrenKuhfeld
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Given your data, you are successfully plotting the means.  You see the mean and the median, which are the same.  That is all you provided to plot.

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WarrenKuhfeld
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Try it once without group= and see if that is more what you had in mind.  I have never tried group= and category= together.  Do you have any variability within those groups?

llt34c
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks. This allowed me to see the box plots better for each "grouping" if you will. I plotted with the raw data and was successful. Just not sure why it wouldn't work the same with these means.

 

Thanks for your help!

Cynthia_sas
SAS Super FREQ

Hi:

  It was my understanding that the Box plot was doing the summarizing for you. For example, in the documentation about box plots:

about_box_plots.png

SASHELP.PRDSALE is NOT pre-summarized. The VBOX statement causes the data to be summarized and the mean calculated.

 

Or, if I do this:

proc sgplot data=sashelp.iris;
  vbox sepallength / group=species;
run;

SASHELP.IRIS is not presummarized, the mean and outlier are shown based on the unsummarized data in the data set.

 

The things I might suggest are that you use your original dataset with the SGPLOT procedure step so that you see the distribution of your unsummarized data.

 

OR, PROC GLIMMIX has a PLOTS= option and will produce a Box plot using ODS GRAPHICS, so looking up the PLOTS= option might help you too.

 

Also, if you are just looking for outliers, PROC UNIVARIATE will show you the 5 highest and lowest (extreme obs) by default if you do this:

proc univariate data=sashelp.iris;
  var sepallength;
run;

cynthia

 

llt34c
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks for your help. I was able to successfully plot with the raw data. I am still not sure though why I can't with the means. 

 

Thanks again!

WarrenKuhfeld
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Given your data, you are successfully plotting the means.  You see the mean and the median, which are the same.  That is all you provided to plot.

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