I posted the following question over on StackOverflow, and I think I am having a hard time understanding exactly how a histogram works.
I have the following set of numbers between 0 and 9:
[1] 1 0 1 4 0 0 7 3 5 3 8 9 1 3 3 1 2 0 7 5 8 6 2 0 2 3 6 9 9 7 8 9 4 9 2 1 3 [38] 1 1 4 9 1 4 4 2 6 3 7 7 4 7 5 1 9 0 2 2 3 9 1 1 1 5 0 6 3 4 8 1 0 3 9 6 2 [75] 6 4 7 1 4 1 5 4 8 9 2 9 9 8 9 6 3 6 4 6 2 9 1 2 0 5 9 2 7 7 2 8 8 5 0 6 0 [112] 0 2 9 0 4 7 7 1 5 7 9 4 6 1 5 7 6 5 0 4 8 7 6 1 8 7 3 7 3 1 0 3 4 5 4 0 5 [149] 4 0 3 5 1 0 8 3 7 0 9 6 6 9 5 4 6 9 3 5 4 2 4 8 7 7 5 8 8 8 2 6 9 3 1 0 4 [186] 1 5 9 0 6 2 1 3 0 6 0 0 8 3 2 0 0 6 0 0 4 7 2 7 1 9 9 3 9 8 4 6 6 5 3 8 1 [223] 8 7 1 3 7 6 3 6 3 6 3 2 3 2 2 7 9 2 3 2 7 5 5 8 8 2 0 1 4 0 6 3 7 1 1 1 4 [260] 7 0 2 9 2 0 5 6 0 8 9 6 2 0 0 7 2 0 4 2 0 9 1 6 9 3 0 0 2 0 6 8 4 0 7 2 1 [297] 9 5 2 4 8 5 2 9 7 9 2 9 7 4 9 3 2 7 3 6 3 6 8 8 3 7 0 9 2 7 9 0 5 4 5 8 4 [334] 3 3 1 7 8 9 7 6 2 1 7 0 5 6 5 2 9 5 4 6 2 2 2 9 0 7 7 2 2 6 3 4 2 0 5 9 6 [371] 2 1 9 0 6 0 4 8 4 3 1 5 4 2 9 5 7 3 1 5 4 5 3 7 3 8 6 2 4 6 1 1 4 0 0 5 8 [408] 6 7 4 2 8 0 2 5 4 8 3 0 6 4 8 6 4 1 8 1 5 4 9 4 3 2 0 5 0 7 9 2 9 8 9 6 5 [445] 2 4 4 6 4 8 4 1 7 5 8 9 5 9 3 2 5 8 2 2 7 2 8 4 1 9 3 6 0 2 2 9 1 2 7 2 1 [482] 3 4 9 1 8 0 2 2 3 4 1 3 7 4 1 4 1 5 9 6 9 0 5 7 6 8 2 0 7 3 5 8 2 8 2 4 8 [519] 5 8 9 7 1 2 4 5 5 1 8 1 4 4 6 5 8 9 2 3 0 5 1 4 0 5 1 2 9 2 4 1 6 8 0 4 9 [556] 0 0 5 9 2 3 5 9 4 4 3 9 2 3 5 6 5 2 7 2 4 2 4 7 2 5 3 7 6 1 0 7 5 4 5 1 6 [593] 9 7 1 6 3 3 1 2 2 0 5 0 6 8 3 6 7 7 3 8 1 7 9 3 9 2 8 3 7 4 1 2 3 6 5 0 1 [630] 8 6 9 2 1 6 0 2 8 0 8 8 9 1 2 2 1 4 8 1 4 4 5 1 8 7 7 9 7 0 6 9 4 5 6 2 5 [667] 7 4 7 2 3 0 8 4 8 0 0 9 7 7 9 8 2 1 6 5 5 1 1 9 7 7 8 6 4 7 5 3 1 6 4 5 7 [704] 4 1 8 3 5 1 7 1 1 8 6 4 3 8 3 1 2 8 9 0 9 1 2 3 3 0 3 0 2 0 3 3 8 3 5 7 0 [741] 5 9 0 5 9 1 5 1 1 2 6 5 5 4 5 1 6 0 2 2 8 0 7 1 0 8 5 6 3 2 9 4 3 6 0 3 4 [778] 1 5 9 3 0 5 0 6 2 7 6 6 6 9 6 7 8 2 0 6 0 8 9 5 3 6 7 4 3 9 7 2 0 4 7 2 2 [815] 8 2 7 0 4 0 5 2 8 7 7 9 1 4 0 1 1 2 3 6 2 0 6 6 1 9 4 5 2 7 7 8 9 5 8 3 8 [852] 5 6 2 0 9 7 1 8 2 6 9 8 4 9 4 1 3 8 4 0 7 7 3 7 6 6 8 8 2 7 0 4 3 7 7 0 8 [889] 4 7 4 0 6 9 8 6 0 1 6 4 5 2 7 3 6 2 2 9 2 7 4 8 7 2 9 5 3 4 8 0 4 4 6 5 6 [926] 1 2 2 8 4 5 7 8 0 6 8 9 1 7 7 2 6 3 9 9 1 0 4 2 5 4 4 9 2 6 7 2 8 3 3 2 7 [963] 0 4 7 0 7 7 8 1 7 3 7 8 0 1 0 2 9 7 6 2 2 6 9 0 6 8 8 9 6 3 5 0 2 2 5 9 6 [1000] 4
Which produces the following histogram:
From what I have heard this is expected. I had assumed that a histogram would display the count of each occurrence of each number in my set. But this does not seem to be right, because 10 numbers occur in my set and there are only 9 columns in my histogram. Can someone explain what each of those 9 columns represents?