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Re: st: changing limits of histogram bins


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: changing limits of histogram bins
Date   Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:37:30 +0100

Richard Hisock wrote:

I am trying to create a frequency histogram where bins consist
of cuts of a variable (proportion of observations therefore 
range [0,1]) in 0.1 bins sizes.

In Stata v9 using histogram..., width(0.1) start(0(0.1)1) the bins
appear to be constructed [0,0.1) [0.1 ,0.2) ... & finally [0.9,1]

Is it possible to change the bin limits (0,0.1] (0.1,0.2] so that
the upper limit is exclude from the bin?

Or should I just reset the bin limits for example 
...,width(0.1) start (0(0.10001)1) xlab(0(0.1)1)?

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My Stata 9.2 does not accept
   histogram ... , start(0(0.1)1)
but it does accept
   histogram ... , start(0) width(0.1)

I made this experiment:

   clear
   set obs 100
   gen x=int(10*uniform())/10
   tab1 x
   histogram x , start(0) width(0.1) frequency

and found (as expected) that it was not predictable whether, e.g.,
0.7 was included in the bin below or above 0.7.

One possible solution is:
  
   generate x1 = x+0.00001
   histogram x1 , start(0) width(0.1) frequency

Hope this helps
Svend



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