[Math] Need help to understand a density histogram

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I've a density histogram, I don't understand. I hope somebody can help me with that.

The histogram: http://www.filedropper.com/capture_5

I know that a density histogram is the bar areas sum to 1. But I don't understand the histogram I have. It's a histogram of a consumption. Is it positive? How is the density? Is it symmetric or skewed?

Best Answer

In an ordinary histogram the area of a bar is equal to the frequency. In this example the area of a bar is equal to the relative frequency = frequency divided by sum of frequencies.

So, for example, the very leftmost bar has height about 0.49 and width 0.5, so area = 0.245 - which means that about 24.5% of the observations are found to take a value of between 0 and 0.4 (whatever HE$Q is).

The distribution is not symmetrical. There is a tail stretching out on the right, so the distribution is positively skewed.