st: histogram x-axis

["LL Miller, Avon Longitudinal Study Parents and Children" <L.L.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>]

Good morning everyone,

I am using Stata 8 for Windows.

I have been trying to create a histogram using:

hist f8dv440, frequency width(1) bfcolor(purple) blcolor(purple)

which creates a lovely plot except for a strange interpretation of the 
values on the x-axis. Rather than displaying the numbers 1 through 22 (the 
scale of my variable) it displays them as, for example, 
5.00000000000000*e^0 so the x-axis is just a jumble of numbers.

There are lots of options for labelling the points themselves but I can't 
find anything to change the display of the x-axis. There seem to be some 
option for this if using -twoway- but not for an individual plot. The 
variable itself is numeric with a width of three and no decimal places.

Any ideas how to change this?

Laura

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LL Miller, Avon Longitudinal Study Parents and Children
L.L.Miller@bristol.ac.uk    0117 3311612
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