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Removing a histogram's vertical edges
I think you could achieve what you want by overlaying two Histogram objects, one with no Edges but colored bars, the second one with Edges, but transparent bars, as ...
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Removing a histogram's vertical edges
The underlying problem is that Histogram creates a set of Rectangles which represent the bars. You can inspect this by looking ...
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Histogram with Error bars
For the case where the height function is "Count", we can use the formula from the linked page in a custom ChartElementFunction ...
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Is there a way to make a bihistogram plot?
data1 = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0, 1], 1000];
data2 = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0.3, 1], 1000];
One way is ...
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How to plot paired smooth histogram/distribution plots?
Here is something using a custom ChartElementFunction
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Histogram of a very large dataset?
I just so happen to have a 4GB data file laying around, so I thought I might give this a try. My data file has one floating point number per line and the number of lines is
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Coloring the bars greater than a certain value in a histogram
Ideally you could have used the ColorFunction option, but sadly for Histogram it seems that it only takes the height as an input....
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Histogram "PDF" vs "Probability"
I believe that when you specify "PDF", the value on the ordinate is the average
probability density within a given bin. And to get the "within-this-bin" ...
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Tuples optimization challenge
Don't use brute force, instead compute probabilities for each amount of leading zero bits in OrderDistribution for the smallest entry of ...
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Scale SmoothHistogram curve to Histogram
If you really want to, you can scale up from the "PDF". The "scaling" factor depends on how the Histogram was binned, but we can use HistogramDistribution to ...
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How can I make a list plot with bars?
BarChart
Although OP says "I don't want a BarChart", the requirements of list plot with drop down columns/bars (overlapping bars/columns) can be achieved using ...
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How to create a bar chart from a list of heights *and* bin delimiter positions?
You can already achieve this using Histogram. No need to fuss with ListPlot.
Use these forms for the second and third arguments ...
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How to normalize histogram height to unity?
You can use your own normalization function
Histogram[RandomReal[NormalDistribution[], 1000], Automatic, #2/Max@#2 &]
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Random Variate generating strange results when using ProbabilityDistribution
There seems to be a bug in version 10.1 that has been fixed in 10.3. You can always try writing your own random number generator. Here is a simple acceptance rejection method based on generalized ...
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Bar chart scale in multi-chart visualisation
Histogram does not support a grouped ChartLayout. Hence the workaround using BarChart:
I'...
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Why aren't CirclePoints[] evenly distributed?
I's say a combination of your code not using an accurate value for Pi/2 and of the automatic binning for Histogram. See the ...
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Histogram3D with various colors and textures on cuboids' faces
For some reason those lines are created during the rasterization of the thing inside Texture:
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Box plot combined with histogram and normal curve
This is very similar to Quantum_Oli's answer, but I will post it anyway. It use's a modified version of Jens's plotGrid function to do the work of combining the ...
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Weighted smooth histogram
SeedRandom[1]
data = Transpose[{RandomReal[10, 100], Normalize @ RandomReal[1, 100]}];
Try WeightedData:
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Histogram as scatter plot
You can use ChartElementFunction -> "Point" to get a histogram as a scatter plot in one step:
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How to generate a horizontal histogram with words?
First of all, you don't need a Histogram, you need BarChart. Secondly, you need to massage the data slightly so each data point ...
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Finding the best way to visualize rather complicated data
The data in the question presents a good case for visualization with Chernoff faces. For that data, actually, the Chernoff faces work "out of the box" pretty well!
Make faces
Load Chernoff faces ...
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How to create a bar chart from a list of heights *and* bin delimiter positions?
While not a Bar Chart per se, I usually prefer to use the result from HistrogramList directly with ListPlot and then join the ...
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Plot a sequence of histograms?
When you have lots of data, you should consider using SmoothKernelDistribution or SmoothHistogram as I'm assuming that you must ...
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Distance between axes and tick labels
You can use Framed on the tick labels and control the margins around the labels with the option FrameMargins:
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Fit function to histogram
It is rare than anyone should use a regression function such as NonlinearModelFit to estimate the parameters of a histogram (constructed from a random sample from ...
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How to make a multi-peak histogram fitting
You can write Expectation-Maximization algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models. It is very easy. Let's consider the case with 3-modal Gaussian distribution, the extension to the arbitrary number is ...
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Removing a histogram's vertical edges
You can also Plot the scaled PDF of the HistogramDistribution of ...
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