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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: zoom on histograms |
| Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:29:26 +0100 |
The objection to subsetting with -if- is presumably that the densities
and/or fractions will no longer be correct.
There's a nice Tip on this in the Stata Journal:
SJ-5-2 gr0014 . . . . . . . Stata tip 20: Generating histogram bin variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. A. Harrison
Q2/05 SJ 5(2):280--281 (no commands)
tip illustrating the use of twoway__histogram_gen for
creation of complex histograms and other graphs or tables
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr0014
Note that -search histogram- would have pointed you to this. The
Statalist FAQ advises a use of -search- before posting.
Nick
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, patrick patrick <verbatimo@hotmail.fr> wrote:
> I have a very simple question, but I did not find the answer in the manual (or on the statalist server)
>
> Let's say I need to run -hist Y which gives me the histogram distribution of Y.
> The problem is that, as Y has a wide range, the whole plot is not very readable and so I would like to plot only a subset of that histogram.. for example only keeping small (or big) values for Y.
> In essence, I just would like to zoom on my graph!
> Of course I cannot run -hist Y if abs(Y)<10 because Stata would build an histogram on that subset of the data...
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