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Answer by ADAM for Gaps in a histogram in sampling distribution

You can adjust the breaks parameter in the hist function to have fewer bins. The first plot (51 bins) might not align perfectly with the exact sample proportions since it's just a count of breaks, not...

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Answer by Nuclear Hoagie for Gaps in a histogram in sampling distribution

It's a bad plot - there should never be space between histogram bars binning continuous data. The plot as shown indicates there were no observations between 0.2 and 0.21 (or in any other gap), which is...

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Answer by jdonland for Gaps in a histogram in sampling distribution

It's just an aesthetic choice on the part of the whoever created the chart. They've added a little padding around each bin, in the style of a bar chart.A histogram is essentially a kind of bar chart,...

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Gaps in a histogram in sampling distribution

This histogram shows the sampling distribution of 5000 sample proportions each based on 50 persons.Why are there gaps between the bars in the histogram?

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