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How to mislead with histograms.
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x <- c(1.03, 1.24, 1.47, 1.52, 1.92, 1.93, 1.94, 1.95, 1.96, 1.97, 1.98,
1.99, 2.72, 2.75, 2.78, 2.81, 2.84, 2.87, 2.9, 2.93, 2.96, 2.99, 3.6,
3.64, 3.66, 3.72, 3.77, 3.88, 3.91, 4.14, 4.54, 4.77, 4.81, 5.62)
# Bin Width 0.8
hist(x, breaks=seq(0.3, 6.7, by=0.8), xlim=c(0, 6.7), col="green3", freq=FALSE)
# Bin Width 1.0
hist(x, breaks=0:8, col="aquamarine", freq=FALSE)
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