Histograms,
Bin Widths, and Cross Validation *****
A demonstration of the effect of bin width on histograms.A so-called
"cross-validation" criterion is provided to show the quality of the histogram.
Smaller values of the cross-validation function generally imply smaller
errors in the approximation of density function.
See also Histogram
Applet----This applet is designed to show how bin widths (or the number
of bins) affect a histogram.
You can interactively change the bin width by dragging the arrow underneath
the bin width scale. For large bin widths,
the bimodal nature of the dataset is hidden, and for small bin widths
the plot reduces to a spike at each data point. What
bin width do you think provides the best picture of the underlying
data?
Interactive
Histogram ****
This Applet is designed to illustrate a frequency or relative frequency
distribution by Clicking on the horizontal axis to select points . The
width can be varied with the scroll bar. Different sets of summary statistics
can be selected from a list box:
a) Mean and standard deviation
b) Boxplot
c) Mean, median, and mode
d) Median and mean absolute deviation
See also Interactive
Histogram with Error Graph
Comparing
distributions ****
Compare distributions of your response times under two conditions.