On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is not really a bug but a strange choice.
So why do you file it as a bug? > When the option freq=F > chosen, hist should plot relative frequency. It plots proportional > to relative frequency by the factor of bin width. Is there a reason > for this? Yes. > A more normal choice seems to be to have it independent of the bin > width. No, because then the histogram could not be used as a "density estimate" which is possible if the relative frequencies are proportional to the are and not the height of the segments. Z ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
