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		mike-the-mikado on Sept 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Histogram vs. ECDF I recommend Kernel Density Estimation as an alternative to histograms if you are specifically interested in the density - e.g. which values are particularly likely to occur (perhaps for multimodal distributions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_density_estimation

iamcreasy on Sept 4, 2022 [–]

I've been told box plot with Kernel density estimation on the side(axis) are very useful.

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