Histogram inside a plot.

I have a histogram which I wish to be plotted inside a scatter plot at the bottom left corner.

I tried using the following but it did'nt work:

handaxes2 = axes('position', [-5 -5 1 1]);

nbins = 100;

hist(dev,nbins);

set(handaxes2, 'box', 'off');

[Youssef Khmou]

which part did not run normally?