[R] Probabilities greather than 1 in HIST

[Jonathan P Daily]

If you read ?hist, you will answer your own question.

The issue in your code is the parameter prob = T, which does nothing. By 
default, hist reports density.
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r-help-bounces at r-project.org wrote on 03/03/2011 09:03:21 AM:

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> [R] Probabilities greather than 1 in HIST
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> 03/03/2011 10:13 AM
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> Dear all,
> I am a newbie in R and could not find help on this problem. I am trying 
to
> plot an histogram with probabilities in the y axis. This is the code I 
am
> using:
> 
> #TLC uniform
> n=30
> mi=1; mx=6
> nrep=1000
> xbar=rep(0,nrep)
> for (i in 1:nrep) {xbar[i]=mean(runif(n,min=mi,max=mx))}
> hist(xbar,prob=TRUE,breaks="Sturges",xlim=c(1,6),main=paste("n =",n),
> xlab="Média", ylab="Probabilidade")
> curve(dnorm(x,mean=mean(xbar),sd=sd(xbar)),add=TRUE,lwd=2,col="red")
> 
> The problem is that I am getting greater than 1 probabilities in the Y 
axis?
> Is there a way to correct this?
> Many thanks in advance.
> Joao
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