Hi all,
I've been Googling an answer to this for FAR too long and am wondering if anyone can help.
I'm trying to graph a series of box plots using "stripplot" on STATA/IC 13.1 . I am plotting the interquartile range of birth weight (in grams) by year with 3 other line graphs overlaid:
I've specified the yscale and ylabel above because I want to "zoom into" these values and not extend the Y axis to the full range of underlying birth weight data (which go from a min of ~450g to max of ~4700g).
After manually editing the size of the X/Y axis labels for clarity, my graph looks like this:
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::Please ignore the fact that the colours are terrible!:: All I want to do is get rid of that huge empty space at the bottom of the Y Axis and just zoom into the relevant part of the graph. It seems as though the margins are still adjusted to the default min/max values of the underlying raw data (mainly at the bottom/lower values of the Y axis).
Please can anyone please help me figure out how to manipulate these margins? I don't understand why the graph is produced this way.
Than you!
Catherine
I've been Googling an answer to this for FAR too long and am wondering if anyone can help.
I'm trying to graph a series of box plots using "stripplot" on STATA/IC 13.1 . I am plotting the interquartile range of birth weight (in grams) by year with 3 other line graphs overlaid:
- smoothed lowess line for the full sample over time
- smoothed lowess line for those in the 10th birth weight centile over time
- smoothed lowess line for those in the 90th birth weight centile over time
Code:
stripplot birthweight, over(year) vertical /// box(bfcolor(gs14) barw(0.2)) iqr(1.5) ms(none) /// addplot(lowess birthweight year, lcolor(black) yscale(range(1500 4500)) ylabel(1500(500)4500) || /// lowess tenth1 year, yscale(range(1500 4500)) ylabel(1500(500)4500) || /// lowess ninety1 year, yscale(range(1500 4500)) ylabel(1500(500)4500))
After manually editing the size of the X/Y axis labels for clarity, my graph looks like this:
Array
::Please ignore the fact that the colours are terrible!:: All I want to do is get rid of that huge empty space at the bottom of the Y Axis and just zoom into the relevant part of the graph. It seems as though the margins are still adjusted to the default min/max values of the underlying raw data (mainly at the bottom/lower values of the Y axis).
Please can anyone please help me figure out how to manipulate these margins? I don't understand why the graph is produced this way.
Than you!
Catherine