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MASS (version 7.3-47)

hist.scott:

Description

Plot a histogram with automatic bin width selection, using the Scott or Freedman--Diaconis formulae.

Usage

hist.scott(x, prob = TRUE, xlab = deparse(substitute(x)), ...)
hist.FD(x, prob = TRUE, xlab = deparse(substitute(x)), ...)

Arguments

x
A data vector
prob
Should the plot have unit area, so be a density estimate?
xlab, …
Further arguments to hist.

Value

For the nclass.* functions, the suggested number of classes.

Side Effects

Plot a histogram.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Springer.

See Also

hist