Computes, from the given input vector, the numbers that would be used to plot a histogram. It does not create the histogram. You can print the numbers as a table or write them to a file (see WRITE command), or use them in your program. The data computed are:
If the percent keyword is present, the FrequenciesVec will contain the number of samples in the bins as a percentage of the total number of samples and CumFrequenciesVec and InvCumFrequenciesVec will be the cumulative summations of those sample count percentages. If the density keyword is present, the FrequenciesVec will represent the probability density, I.e., the bin frequencies divided by the total number of samples divided by the bin width; the CumFrequenciesVec and InvCumFrequenciesVec will contain the cumulative summations of the fractional bin frequencies, i.e., each bin's frequency count divided by the total number of samples. If neither keyword is present, the FrequenciesVec will represent the number of samples in the bins and the CumFrequenciesVec and InvCumFrequenciesVec will contain the cumulative summations of the actual bin frequencies. The binsize keyword sets the width of each histogram bin to the number that follows the keyword. The number specifying the bin size may be a variable. If it is a literal number, it may be any decimal number and may be in scientific notation. To set the desired number of bins, use the bins keyword followed by the desired number, which may be a variable or a literal number. The actual number of bins used may not be exactly the number specified because the program tries to choose bin sizes that are "easy" to read. If both the bins and binsize keywords are present, binsize is used and bins is ignored. See also: HISTOGRAM, and HISTOGRAMPLOT |
NORMAL 10000 50 20 A HISTOGRAMDATA percent A binNumbers binStarts binCenters frequencies cumFrequencies PRINT table binNumbers binStarts binCenters frequencies cumFrequencies XYGRAPH bincenters frequencies cumFrequencies The above program produced the following table: binNumbers binStarts binCenters frequencies cumFrequencies 0.0E00 -30 -25 2.0E-02 2.0E-02 1 -20 -15 0.15 0.17 2 -10 -5 0.44 0.61 3 0.0E00 5 1.58 2.19 4 10 15 4.3 6.49 5 20 25 9.309999 15.800001 6 30 35 14.02 29.820002 7 40 45 19.789999 49.610001 8 50 55 18.790001 68.400002 9 60 65 16.02 84.419998 10 70 75 8.97 93.389999 11 80 85 4.38 97.769997 12 90 95 1.59 99.360001 13 100 105 0.51 99.870003 14 110 115 0.13 100 And this graph: If you want to move your data to Microsoft Excel and create a histogram in Excel worksheet, you can just use HISTOGRAMDATA and PRINT TABLE as above to produce a table. Then copy the table and paste it into Excel. Or you can use the EXEC command to open Excel and write the data to it as shown in Example 2 of the EXEC command documentation. |