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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: display graphs on log scale |
| Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:04:51 +0100 |
This is very well documented; did you even try to find out from Stata?
. search logarithmic scale
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[G] axis_options . . . . . . . . . . Options for specifying numeric axes
(help axis_options)
[G] axis_scale_options . Options for specifying axis scale, range, & look
(help axis_scale_options)
[G] twoway_options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Options for twoway graphs
(help twoway_options)
etc.
Nick
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Pradipto Banerjee
<pradipto.banerjee@adainvestments.com> wrote:
> I have a series that is cumulative returns (of a trading strategy) and I am displaying a line graphs versus date as follows:
>
> . line cumreturns date
>
> Since the cumulative returns grows exponentially, is there any way to change the graph such that scale on Y-axis is logarithmic?
>
> I don't want to change the values to be logarithmic, i.e. I don't want to use: line `= ln(cumreturns)' date. (I'm looking for the equivalent of Matlab function -semilogy-)
>
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