How to avoid multi-column histogram made using histogram() from overlapping the data to get output similar to the one got with hist()

Since MATLAB says that "hist is not recommended. Use histogram instead", I want to ask how to get the same result using histogram() like the one we get with hist() when making a multi-column histogram.

e.g;

x = randn(1000,3);
hist(x)

The above code gives this:

If we use histogram(), i.e.

    x = randn(1000,3);
    histogram(x)

The output is:-

If I use it like this:-

x = randn(1000,3);
histogram(x(:,1));
hold on; 
histogram(x(:,2))
histogram(x(:,3))

I get this:-

I want to get the histogram using histogram() like the one made using hist() (as in first figure)

Answer 1

[Benjamin Kraus]

This isn't a perfect solution, but you can use a combination of histcounts + bar:

x = randn(1000,3);
[N1,edges] = histcounts(x(:,1));
N2 = histcounts(x(:,2),edges);
N3 = histcounts(x(:,3),edges);
ctrs = [edges(1:end-1)+edges(2:end)]/2;
bar(ctrs',[N1;N2;N3]');