MATLAB: How to plot a histogram out of a vector of percentages

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Say I have a vector V with 20 values inside, all representing different percentages (if you add all the values in the vector the result is 1). How can I make a histogram using those 20 values, where each bin's height is the percentage specified in the vector?

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I don't think you want a histogram (which would create the percentages from the raw data). I think you just need a bar graph.

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MATLAB: Histogram

There is a ksdensity function that can produce a kernel-smooth density estimate. The issue is that it produces a density (integrates to 1) and the histogram is not a density (bar heights sum to 1). You could figure out the area of the histogram and re-scale the ksdensity values. Alternatively, here's a way to create the histgram, normal curve, and kernel density separately:

x = [randn(100,1); 4+randn(50,1)];
[hts,ctrs] = hist(x)
bar(ctrs,hts,'hist')
area = sum(hts) * (ctrs(2)-ctrs(1))
xx = linspace(-3,7);
hold on; plot(xx,area*normpdf(xx,mean(x),std(x)),'r-')
f = ksdensity(x,xx);
plot(xx,area*f,'g-')
hold off

MATLAB: Histogram

What you've put doesn't really make sense. See if this is what you want. It computes the histograms of x and y and then plots them.

clc; % Clear the command window.
close all;  % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
clear;  % Erase all existing variables.
workspace;  % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
fontSize = 15;
x=rand(10,1); 
y=rand(10,1);
% Plot the original x data.
subplot(2, 2, 1);
bar(x);
xlabel('Index of X', 'fontSize', fontSize);
ylabel('Value of X', 'fontSize', fontSize);
title('X as a function of Index', 'fontSize', fontSize);
% Plot the original y data.
subplot(2, 2, 2);
bar(y);
xlabel('Index of Y', 'fontSize', fontSize);
ylabel('Value of Y', 'fontSize', fontSize);
title('Y as a function of Index', 'fontSize', fontSize);
% Get the histograms.
[xCounts xValues] = hist(x)
[yCounts yValues] = hist(y)
% Plot X histogram.
subplot(2, 2, 3);
bar(xValues, xCounts);
xlabel('Value of X', 'fontSize', fontSize);
ylabel('Frequency of Occurrence for X', 'fontSize', fontSize);
grid on;
title('Histogram of X', 'fontSize', fontSize);
subplot(2, 2, 4);
bar(yValues, yCounts);
xlabel('Value of Y', 'fontSize', fontSize);
ylabel('Frequency of Occurrence forY', 'fontSize', fontSize);
grid on;
title('Histogram of Y', 'fontSize', fontSize);
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Position', get(0,'Screensize'));

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