“Density” curve overlay on histogram where vertical axis is frequency (aka count) or relative frequency?

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@joran’s response/comment got me thinking about what the appropriate scaling factor would be. For posterity’s sake, here’s the result.

When Vertical Axis is Frequency (aka Count)

density

Thus, the scaling factor for a vertical axis measured in bin counts is

bincount

In this case, with N = 164 and the bin width as 0.1, the aesthetic for y in the smoothed line should be:

y = ..density..*(164 * 0.1)

Thus the following code produces a “density” line scaled for a histogram measured in frequency (aka count).

df1            <- data.frame(v = rnorm(164, mean = 9, sd = 1.5))
b1             <- seq(4.5, 12, by = 0.1)
hist.1a        <- ggplot(df1, aes(x = v)) + 
                    geom_histogram(aes(y = ..count..), breaks = b1, 
                                   fill = "blue", color = "black") + 
                    geom_density(aes(y = ..density..*(164*0.1)))
hist.1a

plot

When Vertical Axis is Relative Frequency

relfreq

Using the above, we could write

hist.1b        <- ggplot(df1, aes(x = v)) + 
                    geom_histogram(aes(y = ..count../164), breaks = b1, 
                                   fill = "blue", color = "black") + 
                    geom_density(aes(y = ..density..*(0.1)))
hist.1b

relf

When Vertical Axis is Density

hist.1c        <- ggplot(df1, aes(x = v)) + 
                    geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density..), breaks = b1, 
                                   fill = "blue", color = "black") + 
                    geom_density(aes(y = ..density..))
hist.1c

dens

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