That is your distinction, not Stata's.
As far as Stata is concerned, either
a data point is on a graph or it isn't,
and -if- is the way to control that.
-line- plots are awkward. If you
omit data, what gets left behind
will get joined up. That's all.
What might have been included but
is not is not taken account of.
You won't get slicing whereby a line is cut
in the way you might want. In
other words the image you get
is not a subset of the full image.
One way to see this:
sysuse auto, clear
gen order = _n
line price order
line price order if price < 10000
Compare the two graphs carefully.
In the case of density functions,
there are good arguments for both
square root and log scales.
Nick
[email protected]
Nassar
>
> I don't want to exclude data, but to focus the graph window
> on some interval
> of the data.
> The yvariable is not directly observed (a kdensity plot) so I
> can't (don't
> know how to) make any selection upon the density..
>
> yscale(range()) expand range of axis ([G]p56) and range()
> never causes the
> data to be omitted from the plot([G] p59)
> one would appreciate either to expand or to REDUCE the axis
> scales using the
> same axis_scale_option
>
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