For further examples people might check out histograms in Leland Wilkinson's
book the Grammar of Graphics. He presents a "gap histogram" with unequal bin
widths (breakpoints determined by partial Vornoi tesselation in 1 dimension)
such that area of bar is determined by the count of cases in the b
1. i find interesting the obvious that ... while students seem to fear
statistics primarily because it contains "math" ... and they dislike math
... since they think math is so OBjective and exact ... while the fact of
the matter is that there are wide variations ( ... our discussion of bar
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First, a comment about the recent conversation; then some new, related
stuff:
I agree with Donald Burrill; there is no assumption that histograms have
equal bar widths.
See (I think) Tukey in EDA. The example I remember is for looking at an
income distribution, where you might well have bins of,
