Changing ylabels to percentages

[Hossein Jebeli]

How can I change the unit of y-axis in a marginsplot to percentages (i.e., multiplying them by 100)? I have a loop over a couple of variables and would like to do this change for all at once.

foreach fr in "labor_productivity" "debt" "icr" {
margins, dydx(`fr') atmeans
marginsplot
}

[Andrew Musau]

Maybe easier to change the units in margins rather than manipulate the marginsplot labels, although the latter is still possible.

foreach fr in labor_productivity debt icr{
    margins, dydx(`fr') atmeans expression(xb()*100)
    marginsplot
}

[Hossein Jebeli]

Thanks Andrew! My dataset is huge and predict(outcome(2)) was giving me the margins after an hour but if I use expression(predict(outcome(2))*100), it does not give me the margins even after a couple of hours.

 foreach fr in labor_productivity debt icr{
    margins `fr', atmeans expression(predict(outcome(2))*100)    
marginsplot }

So is there a way to adjust the labels in marginsplot instead of using the expression in margins?

P.S. I removed the dydx as I think the average at each level of `fr' is more informative in my case.

[Andrew Musau]

sysuse auto, clear
mlogit rep78 mpg displ i.foreign
margins foreign, predict(outcome(1)) 
marginsplot
marginsplot, plotopts(ylab(-.05 "-5" 0 .05 "5" .1 "10" .15 "15"))

[Hossein Jebeli]

Thanks Andrew! I was hoping to find a way to do this automatically (as mentioned in the first post), because the margins are changing across variables and across different specifications that I am trying. But it seems this is the only way. Thanks.

[Scott Adams]

Try using the package -mylabels-
Example here is for KM curve but might work with marginsplot.

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