Re: st: Changing the scale of a graph

[Lukas Borkowski <LukasBork@hotmail.com>]

Nick, would you suggest to check for outliers before drawing the graph then, or is there any integrated command?

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Lukas Borkowski



Am 6 Jun 2012 um 18:48 schrieb Nick Cox:

> You are not giving the Stata command you typed or telling us much about your data. 
> 
> There must be a reason why you get a lot of white space. Most obviously one or more outlier(s) need to be accommodated. As already emphasised in this thread, whatever you do to -ysc()- or -yla()- will not cause data to be omitted. 
> 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
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> sebas nicaise
> 
> Thank you for the replies, this is indeed what I asked but there is still alot of ''white'' in the graph.
> I want to present the (small) increase in leverageratio, but with these commands it still looks like a very mild upward slope.
> 
> So my question is: How can I magnify these very small changes into the graph?
> 
> Saqlain RAZA
> 
>> try with ylabel(0.25(0.01)0.30)
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> sebas nicaise 
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>> When I do that the graph does not look nice. I want the y-axis to have very small intervals e.g 0.25 0.26 0.27 0.28 0.29 0.30.
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> LukasBork@hotmail.com
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>>> just use -yscale(range(0 0.25))- to rescale your y-axis the way you want to!
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> Am 6 Jun 2012 um 16:58 schrieb sebas nicaise:
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>>>> I have a scatter output with on the x-axis time and on the y-axis the leverageratio.
>>>> When I command stata to plot I get on the y-axis a scale from 0.1 to 0.35.
>>>> 
>>>> Now I want to narrow my y-axis to lets say 0.25 to 0.30, How do I tell stata to do this?
>>>> 
>>>> I have tried add the command ylabel(0.3 0.35) but does not give me a nice looking graph.
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