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Data Analysis and Statistics for Geography, Environmental Science, and Engineering
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Data Analysis and Statistics for Geography, Environmental Science, and Engineering

by Miguel F. Acevedo
December 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
557 pages
19h 5m
English
CRC Press
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79Random Variables, Distributions, Moments, and Statistics
to obtain Figure 3.18a. Here, we have also used main = “” to print blank as the main title.
You will often have to make a decision on the best number of intervals to use according to the
trade-off between smoothness and detail. Also, you can establish the maximum value to scale the
y-axis with ylim = c(y1,y2) in the following manner:
>hist(x, nclass=10, prob=T, ylim=c(0,0.06), main=“”)
The maximum value on the y-axis will be set to 0.06, the minimum at 0.00 (Figure 3.18b). The
subsequent command to plot will use this maximum value and therefore you may have to reset it.
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