Berton Gunter wrote:
Rug plots cannot show replicated values -- spikes at discrete values -- in
the data distribution. Quantile plots do.
But you can use rug(jitter(x))
Kjetil
-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
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Subject: Re: [R] Displaying a distribution -- was: Combining
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Berton Gunter <gunter.berton <at> gene.com> writes:
:
: May I take this off topic a little to seek collective
wisdom (and so feel
: free to reply privately).
:
: The catalyst is Deepayan's remark:
:
: > Histograms were appropriate for drawing density estimates by
: > hand in the good old days, but I can imagine very few
situations where I
: > would not prefer to use smoother density estimates when I
have the
: > computational power to do so.
: >
: > Deepayan
:
: Generally, I agree; but the appearance and thus one's perception and
: interpretation of both histograms and density plots depend upon the
: parameters chosen for the display (bin boundaries for
histograms; bandwidth
: and kernel for density plots).
If the problem is distrust of the procedure one can simulataneously
display the raw data with a rug plot,
example(rug)
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