Gregor GORJANC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > Up to now I have been using hist() to display the distributions. > Howevere, I noteiced strange numbers on y (vertical) axis, if I used > probability = T or freq = F option. I thought it is a bug and launched > the R-bug system and found some posts on that matter. Brian Ripley > responded to one, that one should look at truehist() for that. Ok I > can use truehist() if I want to see the ratios or probabilities, but > what is then the "density or probability" in hist()?
... > truehist(mydata) # looks OK And truehist(mydata, h=.5)? It is a density estimate. The sum of the bar _areas_ should be 1. > sum(x$intensities * .5) [1] 0.9999998 -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
