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Re: Plot PDF of a Discrete Random Variable

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  • Subject: [mg63806] Re: Plot PDF of a Discrete Random Variable
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:34:29 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/13/06 at 4:49 AM, thomas.madden at sbcglobal.net (Thomas Madden)
wrote:

>What is the best way, or the typical way, to plot the PDF of a
>discrete random variable? Binomial for example.

A way would be as follows:

<<Statistics`
data=RandomArray[BinomialDistribution[100,.5],100];
ListPlot[{First@#,Length@#}&/@Split[Sort@data],PlotJoined->True];

or

<<Graphics`
Histogram[data];
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