st: Scatterplot jitters - bug? (v12/Win used)

["Allan Reese (Cefas)" <allan.reese@cefas.co.uk>]

Here's an irritating "feature" that I would term a bug, in that the results are not as per documentation and are counter-intuitive.  It seems that coincident points at the top-right limit of the plotted area are not jittered.  Here's a little, real, dataset and two examples to compare. Point at (5 50.2) are not jittered in the first plot. 

. list y x, sep(0)

     +----------+
     | y      x |
     |----------|
  1. | 0   44.7 |
  2. | 0   44.7 |
  3. | 0   44.7 |
  4. | 0   39.9 |
  5. | 1   39.9 |
  6. | 0   39.9 |
  7. | 3   35.2 |
  8. | 5   35.2 |
  9. | 5   35.2 |
 10. | 5   50.2 |
 11. | 5   50.2 |
 12. | 3   50.2 |
     +----------+

. scatter y x, jitter(5)

. scatter y x, jitter(5) yscale( range(0 5.2))

Allan
 


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