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RE: st: Changing the scale of a graph


From   sebas nicaise <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Changing the scale of a graph
Date   Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:12:11 +0000

Dear Nick,

I typed the command: scatter  medianleverageratiohigh medianleverageratiolow quarter7, ylabel(0.20(0.01)0.35)

When I plot the original graph,scatter medianleverageratiohigh medianleverageratiolow quarter7, I do not have any outliers. Al values(points) are between 0.20 and 0.35.

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:48:17 +0100
> Subject: RE: st: Changing the scale of a graph
>
> 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
> [email protected]
>
> 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)
>
> sebas nicaise
>
>> 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.
>
> [email protected]
>
>>> just use -yscale(range(0 0.25))- to rescale your y-axis the way you want to!
>
> Am 6 Jun 2012 um 16:58 schrieb sebas nicaise:
>
>>>> 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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