Log-log plot which doen't display every values
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Hi everyone,
I believe some data I am playing with could be better displayed using a loglog plot. my vector:
y =
45 67
4 8
3 3
0 0
0 3
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
So, if I correctly plot that I should end-up with five marks on my graph right ? which is confirmed by the bar graph I get through my code:
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/154629/image.png)
So far my code only display three points... and I obviously need to display them all. Would you help me on that? Is it because the loglog function can't allow you don't display values equal to zero ?
my code:
none = length(one)
ntwo = length(two)
h(1:none,1)=one
h(1:ntwo,2)=two
[y,x]=hist(h)
stringTitle1 = 'test'
stringTitle2= ' comparison'
bar(x,y, 'group')
title('test title')
xlabel('test name') % x-axis label
ylabel('Frequency') % y-axis label
legend('XZ','YZ')
xLog = y(:,1)
yLog = y(:,2)
loglog(xLog,yLog,'.')
Cheers, Flo
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the cyclist
on 1 Jul 2016
Edited: the cyclist
on 1 Jul 2016
The basic problem is that log(0) is "equal" to negative infinity, so cannot be displayed.
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the cyclist
on 4 Jul 2016
A simple option is to use a log(x+1) rather than a log(x) transformation to display the data. In other words, just add 1 to your data before using loglog. There are pros and cons to this approach. Here is one place you could read a bit about the practical aspects.
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