[R] Another newbie question: curve of normal distribution

[Matej Cepl]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:33:43AM +0000, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
> Hi Matej,
> 
> heads  <- rbinom(n = 100, size = 40, p = .5) ### simulated data
> X <- quantile(heads, probs = seq(.001, .999, length = 1000))
> Y <- dnorm(X, mean = mean(heads), sd = sqrt(var(heads)))
> hist(heads, probability = T)
> lines(X, Y, col = "red")

Thanks, that's exactly what I need -- sorry for not explaining
better.

Matej

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