 rough the histogram looks, and often requires some tweaking. If you make the bins too wide, it may be hard to spot the intricacies in a distribution. If you make the bins too narrow, on the other hand, each bin will contain only a small number of values and you won’t summarize the distribution in a visually meaningful way. In the extreme case, each bin will either contain just one observation, or none.</p>
<p>A <strong>boxplot</strong> (right plot in Figure <a href="intro.html#fig:example-histogram-and-b