[R] Histograms in R

[R. Michael Weylandt]

You're absolutely right. Was thinking exponential for some reason....

The rootogram is quite nice; I've never seen one before. Thanks!

Michael

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:
> The lines() command doesn't work and histogram combines categories unless
> you specify the number. How about a barplot
>
> Lam <- 3
> X <- table(rpois(500, Lam))
> Max <- length(X)-1
> barplot(rbind(X, 500*dpois(0:Max, Lam)), beside=TRUE,
> legend.text=c("Observed", "Expected"))
>
> or a rootogram
> library(vcd)
> rootogram(X, dpois(0:Max, Lam)*500)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:55 PM
> To: kerry1912
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Histograms in R
>
> Try something like this
>
> Lam <- 3
> X <- rpois(500, Lam)
> hist(X, freq = F)
> x <- seq(min(X), max(X), length = 500)
> lines(x, dpois(x, Lam), col=2)
>
> Adapt as necessary
>
> Michael
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 8:03 AM, kerry1912 <kerry1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We have a histogram of our observed response and we want to overlay the
>> corresponding poisson distribution with respect to our poisson model.
>>
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Histograms-in-R-tp3985397p3985397.html
>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>