A density integrates to one, so the total area of the bins is one. It's your `Thought' which is incorrect.
For hist(freq=FALSE) the area of each rectangle (not its height) represents the proportion of the data falling into the base of the rectangle. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, wolski wrote: > Hi! > Do not understand following behavior. > > > > summary(test$dif) > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 0.7389 0.9713 0.9850 0.9818 1.0000 1.0000 > length(test$dif) > [1] 85879 > > > tmp <- hist(test$dif,breaks=100,freq=FALSE) > > The density on the Y axis in the plot are in the range 0-200. > Thought that the density should be in the range 0-1 > (something like tmp$count/length(test$dif))? > > > Eryk > > P.S. > In case of frequencies all are fine for the dataset. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
