START Keyword (XGRAPH command)

The START keyword specifies the starting value of the first bin in the chart.

AUTO. Adjust the starting value of the first bin according to the data values. The starting value is set so the first bin includes the lowest data value and the bin boundaries are at good values. This is the default.

value. User-specified starting value. The value can be set lower than the lowest data value so the first bin includes values that are not in the dataset. For example, if the lowest value in the dataset is 6, the starting value can be set to 0 so the values of 0–5 are included in the first bin.

Note: If the variable being binned is a date, the starting value must be a data literal in quotes and in the date format specified for the variable in the IBM® SPSS® Statistics data dictionary (for example, 'January 1, 2001').