Re: st: How to change scale of yaxis from proportion with lots of decimals to per 100000

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

There are various possible solutions.

1. -replace- the variable with itself multiplied by 100000.

2. -clonevar- the variable ditto.

In either case, you will need to change the variable label if you are
like me and put units of measurement in variable labels.

3. Stata will accept  e.g. -ylabel(42 "foobar")- and so -ylabel(1
"100,000")- etc.

4. A helper command for #3 is -mylabels- (SSC).

The principles here apply to nonlinear re-scales too. See

SJ-8-1  gr0032  . . . . . . .  Stata tip 59: Plotting on any transformed scale
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q1/08   SJ 8(1):142--145                                 (no commands)
        tip on how to graph data on a transformed scale

Accessible to all at http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=gr0032

Nick

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM, roland andersson
<rolandersson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to make twoway graphs of the trend over time of the incidence
> rate of a rare disease by four groups where this disease varies
> strongly. In one group the disease has changed from 5 to 10 per
> 100,000 live births, in another from 5000 to 10,000 per 100,000 live
> births.
> I want to do the graphs by(groups). My problem is that the yscale
> shows the proportion with lots of decimals, eg 0.00005. I want to
> multiply the yscale with 100,000 so that it shows the number per
> 100,000 live births instead of the proportion with decimals. How can I
> do it?
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