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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503111616190.3043@stat12.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2005-03-11T03:17:49Z
From: David Scott
Subject: sample function
In-Reply-To: <42310AE7.4050505@metahuman.org>

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Martin C. Martin wrote:

> "hist" is lumping things together.
>
> Try:
> sum(temp == 0)
>
> compare to the height of the left most bar.
>
> Is this a bug in hist?
>
No, hist is the wrong thing to use to display this data.

Try

temp <-sample(0:12, 2000, replace=T,prob=(rep(1/13,13)))
barplot(table(temp))

David Scott
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