Modifying the scale of Kdensity graph

[Sally Ahmed]

Hello,

I would like to know how to change the scale of the Yaxis and Xaxis in a kdensity graph for example, the yaxis from 0 to 15 and I want it to be presented from 0 to 8. I tried to edit the graph form global properties and change the scale but whenever I put 8 as a number it says upper limit is too small.

Regards,
Sally

[Andrew Musau]

Stata does not allow you to truncate data, no exceptions to this rule. You may extract the data and do the truncation + plotting if you want to force it.

[Nick Cox]

You need to generate the density as a new variable and then select what you want to show.

That said, if I were reviewing any paper or thesis that told me that the distribution shown was not complete, I would bounce that back to the author with a request to see the whole display. More generally, statistically-informed readers should want to see everything. What is happening in the tail of a distribution can be just as important, interesting or indeed problematic as what is happening in the rest of the distribution.