Exploratory Data Analysis: Combining Histograms and Density Plots to Examine the Distribution of the Ozone Pollution Data from New York in R
July 29, 2013 9 Comments
Introduction
This is a follow-up post to my recent introduction of histograms. Previously, I presented the conceptual foundations of histograms and used a histogram to approximate the distribution of the “Ozone” data from the built-in data set “airquality” in R. Today, I will examine this distribution in more detail by overlaying the histogram with parametric and non-parametric kernel density plots. I will finally answer the question that I have asked (and hinted to answer) several times: Are the “Ozone” data normally distributed, or is another distribution more suitable?
Read the rest of this post to learn how to combine histograms with density curves like this above plot!
This is another post in my continuing series on exploratory data analysis (EDA). Previous posts in this series on EDA include
- Descriptive statistics
- Box plots
- The conceptual foundations of kernel density estimation
- How to construct kernel density plots and rug plots in R
- Violin plots
- The conceptual foundations of empirical cumulative distribution functions (CDFs)
- 2 ways of plotting empirical CDFs in R
- The conceptual foundations of histograms
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