SPSS 21 Y Axis Scaling

[mvallely]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to edit the intervals of the y axis of a line graph so that it doesn't show every single value of mt data. I've tried and tried to search for a scaling option within the chart editor but there's nothing that i've seen or tried that works!

Any help would be appreciated as I've wasted so much time on thins already!


Many thanks

Marie-Claire

[Andy W]

In inline GPL you can set the distance between tick marks by the "delta()" option for a GUIDE statement. The example below would make the Y axis tick marks be 5 units apart:

GUIDE: axis(dim(2), label("Y"), delta(5))

From your description though it sounds as if you might be accidentally treating the Y axis as a categorical variable instead of numeric though. If making the plot through the graph builder GUI, make sure the variable level is set to scale when building the plot.