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Re: Change x-axis scale

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  • Subject: [mg123596] Re: Change x-axis scale
  • From: Helen Read <readhpr at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:45:05 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/11/2011 3:58 AM, Scott Colwell wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have been looking for about two hours for how to change the x-axis in the following plot of a normal distribution.  I must be going blind because I can't find it.
>
> Plot[PDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], x], {x, -4, 4},
>   Axes ->  {True, False}]
>
> This plots the x-axis with -4, -2, 0, 2, 4
>
> What I want is the scale to go from -4 to 4 by 1,
> so -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
>
> Could someone please give me a hand with this.
>
> Thanks,
>

Look up Ticks in the Documentation. For example:

Plot[PDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], x], {x, -4, 4},
  Axes -> {True, False}, Ticks -> {Range[-4, 4], None}]

-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont



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