On 05/07/2012 3:34 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
Hi Jim,
You can't specify both number of bins and bin size. You can specify
breaks: either the number of bins or the location of breakpoints. A
histogram with 20 bins of 50 observations each must by definition come
from a uniform distribution.
Only if the bins are equal in size. You could set the bins to
quantiles, for the following ugly plot:
hist(x, breaks=quantile(x, seq(0, 1, by=0.05)))
Duncan Murdoch
What are you trying to accomplish?
Sarah
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jim Silverton <jim.silver...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a column of 1000 datapoints from the normal distribution with mean 2
> and variance 4. How can I get a histogram of these observations with 20
> bins with each bin having 50 observations?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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