Histogram comparison - relative frequency to chosen reference distribution

Hi there,

Comparing the relative frequency of multiple histograms is possible with the 'Normalization' parameter. But is it possible to chose one distribution, set each bin to height 1, and then plot another distributions with identical bin-width where the bin-height is the relative frequency relative to the original distribution?

It may be a bit messy to understand, but it would look like a completely flat reference histogram, with the compared histograms having different profiles but equal area under the curve.

Hope it makes sense, and someone is able to help me out.

[dpb]

I don't know about trying to fool histogram with the named parameter, but don't see why it isn't pretty much trivial to compute the bin heights and use bar() if it doesn't work.

[Steven Lord]

Can you give a concrete example of what you're describing with a couple of (small) data sets, say no more than 20-30 data points in each?

[Aske Ejdrup]

I've considered bar() as well, but I'm not a big fan of the native bar-plot in MATLAB. If it turns out to be futile with histogram, that might have to be my solution.

[dpb]

I agree w/ Steven, however, it would be simpler to have a sample dataset with actual illustration of what you want...handdrawn figure to illustrate the specific plot for the given data would be ok. I didn't have a lot of time and not that familiar w/ histogram() the function so while agree bar() is a bxxx to do anything with other than basics, figured can get the bin heights if I do follow what you're asking for.