Start(#) option of histogram not working

[Nicolas Perreault]

Hi all,

I am running into an issue where the start(#) option when using the histogram command is not changing the start value of the first bin. Can someone help me with this?

Code example:

clear all


input days 
    15
    15
    15
    25
    60
    80
    90
    110
    112
    115
    130
    140
    145
    202
    220
    260
    310
    315
    320
end

histogram days, discrete start(0) width(50) xlabel(0(50)360)

[Nick Cox]

Omit the discrete option, which is subverting your goal. .

A different point is that quantile would give a clearer representation here.

[Nicolas Perreault]

Thanks Nick! And thank you for the quantile idea.