Re: st: mlowess- Rescaling the Y-axis

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

-mlowess- (SSC) is user-written, as you are asked to explain.

To get what you want you would need to clone -mlowess- and remove all  
the graphics calls except those drawing the predicted values given the  
predictors.
If they are essentially flat w.r.t. the predictors the modelling or  
smoothing exercise is evidently finding little structure in the data.
Nick


On 13 Sep 2012, at 20:26, "Vahid Ravaghi, Dr"  
<vahid.ravaghi@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hi Statalist
>
> I am trying to depict the Lowess smoothing with multiple predictors  
> using the command 'mlowess'. Because I only needed the smoothed  
> curve, I added the 'nopt' option to get rid of the scatterplot. This  
> was the code:
> .mlowess teeth income, nopt
>
> The curve lie below the value 2 of the y-axis, but the y-axis ranges  
> from 0-25. As a result, the curve looks really small and it is hard  
> to interpret. Changing the range of the y-axis using the' yscale'  
> and 'ylable' is not feasible due to wide range of observations. I  
> was wondering if anyone have any suggestion to enlarge the curve  
> either by changing the scale of the y-axis  or etc..
> Kind regards,
>
> Vahid Ravaghi
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> McGill University
>
>
>
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