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Re: Last bin of a histogram ? [message #83885]

Wed, 10 April 2013 11:20

John Correira
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Registered: August 2011

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On 04/10/2013 02:08 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> John Correira writes:
>
>> I thought that defined the start of the last bin. If you look at the
>> output locations, the last one is 99.5, which, again according to the
>> help, defines the starting location for each bin.
>
> Well, OK, that is the starting location of the last bin, then. But, it
> will be empty, since you told the function to ignore anything that might
> go into it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

I see.

So the following two calls will return the exact same set of bins, but
different histograms:

h1 = histogram(data,min=0.,max=99.5,binsize=.5,locations=l1)
h2 = histogram(data,min=0.,nbins=200,binsize=.5,locations=l2)

print, array_equal(l1,l2)
print, array_equal(h1,h2)

Brilliant.

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		Re: Last bin of a histogram ? By: John Correira on Wed, 10 April 2013 11:20
		Re: Last bin of a histogram ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 April 2013 11:08
		Re: Last bin of a histogram ? By: John Correira on Wed, 10 April 2013 11:02
		Re: Last bin of a histogram ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 April 2013 10:50

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