5.1 A continuous variable
First, there are two Histogram options: Histogram
and Density
. These are useful for seeing the overall distribution of your data and to help check for normality. Which should you use? I think they’re both pretty great, and in fact you can combine the two to have a histogram plot with a density overlay. I like this option best because it presents more information and better lets us see if the if the density curve looks normally distributed.