Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:43:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Bill Simpson <wsimpson@gcal.ac.uk>
To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] How to superimpose a histogram and density plot
In-Reply-To: <199906080824.KAA17809@sophie.ethz.ch>
> PD> "Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland)" <Bill.Venables@cmis.CSIRO.AU>
> PD> writes:
> >> The fact that every elementary book on statistics does it this way
> >> does not make it correct. To be helpful, a histogram really has to
> >> be a non-parametric density estimator, period.
Not EVERY elem stats book. The best (IMHO) intro stats book (Freedman
et al) does it right--it ONLY uses histograms with a density y axis. I
used this book to teach stats to psych majors for several yrs.
Freedman, Pisani, Purves, Adhikari (1991) Statistics. Norton ISBN
0-393-96043-9
I think there is a newer 3rd ed.
Bill S
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