Histogram: Plot a Histogram

In LearningStats: Elemental Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Description

The function Histogram plots a histogram of a given sample.

Usage

Histogram(x, freq = FALSE, col.fill = "grey", main = "autom",
  xlab = "", ylab = "autoy")

Arguments

x	a numeric vector containing the sample provided to compute the histogram.
freq	a single logical value; if TRUE, the histogram graphic uses absolute frequencies; if FALSE (default), a histogram of area 1 (density) is plotted.
col.fill	a single colour to be used to fill the bars; default to grey.
main	main title, by default "Histogram" or "Histogram of area 1" depending on the value of the argument freq, TRUE or FALSE respectively.
xlab	x-axis label; by default empty.
ylab	y-axis label; by default "Frequency" or "Density" depending on the value of the argument freq, TRUE or FALSE respectively.

Details

The procedure to construct the histogram is detailed below:

- number of intervals: the closest integer to sqrt(n);

- amplitude of each interval: the range of the sample divided by the number of intervals, i.e., the breaks are equidistant and rounded to two decimals;

- height of each bar: by default (freq=FALSE) the plotted histogram is a density (area 1); if freq=TRUE, then the values of the bars are the absolute frequencies.

Value

A list containing the following components:

ni	a numeric vector containing the absolute frequencies.
fi	a numeric vector containing the relative frequencies.
Ni	a numeric vector containing the absolute cumulative frequencies.
Fi	a numeric vector containing the relative cumulative frequencies.
tab	the frequency table.

Independently on the user saving those values, the function provides the frequency table on the console.

Examples

x=rnorm(10)
Histogram(x)
Histogram(x,freq=TRUE)
Histogram(x,freq=TRUE,col="pink")

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