Fixing an inequality in my previous posting:
> This certainly looks like a bug,
> but Stata is only trying its best...
>
> How does it arise? Here is my surmise.
>
> When Stata is -- in effect -- asked to
> plot a constant on one graph axis, how
> it is supposed to choose upper and lower
> limits for the axis -- if given no information to
> determine that by -?la()- or -?sc()-?
>
> The adhockery used is that Stata tries to add
> 1 to and subtract 1 from the constant.
> However, whenever the lower limit
> would be < 0 this clashes with any prescription
<= 0
> of a logarithmic scale.
>
> Hence my guess is that this arises whenever
> the constant is <= 1, not quite Roger's
> diagnosis.
Nick
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