Message-ID: <49ABD0C6.9090808@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 2009-03-02T12:27:50Z
From: Johannes Elias
Subject: density > 1?
Dear R-Gurus,
I wonder why 'density' values as shown in hist or plot(density(x)) are
sometimes over 1. How can that be?
Example
>hist(rnorm(1000,sd=.5),freq=FALSE)
The resulting plot shows density values below 1 on the y-axis. However,
>hist(rnorm(1000,sd=.1),freq=FALSE)
shows density values over 1.
How to interpret density values over 1?
Greetings,
Johannes