Distribution of quantitative variable across the categries of a categorical variable

[Silvana Builes]

Hi! Could someone tell me which command to use in stata to compare the distribution of a quantitative variable across the categories of a categorical variable?
I thank you in advance

[Nick Cox]

Anything you like

histogram 

dotplot 

anova 

regress 

glm

???

[Silvana Builes]

Dear Nick, I would like to visualize the distribution. Sorry, for not specifying.
I have two variables:income which is quantitative and conflicto that has 3 categories depicting the level of conflict. I would like to see how income is distributed within each of the three levels of conflicto. I've tried
graph box ln_PERCAPITA birthreg, but it gives a boxplot for income and for conflicto, but what I would like to see is 3 boxplots ( each for each level of conflict) depicting the distribution of income

[Nick Cox]

graph box ln_PERCAPITA birthreg

gives a boxplot for income and for conflicto

I don't follow that. but

graph box ln_PERCAPITA, over(conflicto)

may work better and stripplot (from SSC) will in my view work even better.

I guess you have perhaps 200 countries, and so the data could easily be shown here (unless it's also panel data and you're not telling us that).

[Silvana Builes]

graph box ln_PERCAPITA, over(conflicto) This worked perfectly! Thanks