Question about histogram

[Titir Bhattacharya]

Hi all,

I have been trying to plot a variable and I'm not able to get the histogram look proper ( my histogram turning out to be very high and narrow). I have been trying with different start values, xlabels etc but not getting it to look right.

The summary of the variable is:
min: 100, max: 1.5e+08, mean: 208548,stddev: 267326, observations: 5000000

I used the following options for the historgram:

histogram var,by(x) ytitle(%) percent xlabels (10000(10000)40000)

I have been playing around with the numbers quite a bit but I continue to get extremely narrow and high histogram.

Would appreciate any suggestion.

Please let me know if you would like further information about the distribution.

Best,

[Nick Cox]

From what you're telling us the maximum value of your variable is about 150 million and so the x axis labels you're asking for extend only over about 30000 / 150 million or 0.02% of the range.

Odds are that the only useful histogram will be one using log scale.

See https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf...867X1801800116 for detailed discussion.

[Titir Bhattacharya]

Thanks Nick, this is extremely useful for my case.