Unable to scroll up to see the beginning of the results.

[karthick veerapandian]

Hello All,

In recent times I facing a unique problem in my Stata. Whenever I am using the tab of the lengthy or large variable, the result is appearing on the Stata window but I am unable to see the beginning of the table if I scroll up. The scrolling getting stopped after some point, So anyone can tell me what is the problem that I am facing? and how to solve this problem?. I am not sure this problem is due to computer processer or Stata process. Therefore, I have attached the screen shot of the window here. Kindly help me.

[Nick Cox]

Stata doesn't promise to keep everything shown in the Results window in memory. If you have a table too long to recall it all, you will need to open a log file so that you have a record of what was shown.

A table that long is hard to grasp any way, so what precisely do you want to see?

[karthick veerapandian]

I want to see the distribution of land size. According to the report, the values range from 0-1332412. I just want to see that where are these values mostly distributed to recode these values into some groups. That can happen only when I see the distribution.

[Nick Cox]

I recommend looking at a histogram or quantile plot. I would also see how many zeros you have and then look at the others on a logarithm scale.

count if B3_C12 == 0 

quantile B3_C12 if B3_C12 > 0 , ysc(log)

[karthick veerapandian]

Thank you, Nick, I did as you said, the result is below.

. count if B3_C12 == 0
26

quantile B3_C12 if B3_C12 > 0 , ysc(log)

Graph.gph

This is not helping me with my purpose.

[Nick Cox]

Please don't post .gph files. This is explained at FAQ Advice #12. https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#stata

On the contrary the graph shows a distribution that is approximately symmetric on log scale, apart from zeros, with some moderate outliers on that scale. That is exactly what I would expect for areas of land holdings -- in any country whatsoever. You can get an improved graph by switching off the reference line and doing a little work to specify axis labels.

quantile B3_C12 if B3_C12 > 0 , ysc(log) yla(1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000, ang(h)) rlopts(lc(none))

By all means draw a histogram if that appeals more. Detailed advice on that at https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0072 A histogram is harder work to get right here.

[karthick veerapandian]

Thank you Nick for your kind help

I will exercise as you said.