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Re: Histogram and bin sizes [message #58783 is a reply to message #58779]

Wed, 20 February 2008 11:43

pgrigis
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jeffnettles4...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've always wondered why you have to use a constant bin size with
> HISTOGRAM().
> To quote J.D.'s famous tutorial: "a histogram
> represents nothing more than a fancy way to count." Doesn't an
> imposed constant bin size imply that this is the only way it's ok to
> count? I can think of several reasons i wouldn't want to do this - I
> used logarithmic bin sizes in my dissertation, for example (now i'm
> hoping someone isn't going to answer this post saying i screwed up in
> my dissertation :-) ).

I use logarithmic bins myself quite often, and the fact that a
logarithmic bin
size is the same as a constant bin size in log space, makes it is easy
to use histogram to get that. Less regulars binning don't work with
histogram, but nobody stops you from writing your own version to work
with them (it will not be as fast as histogram though).

Ciao,
Paolo

> And besides, Excel lets you use arbitrary bin
> sizes....and if Excel lets you do it, it has to be ok, right???? ;-)
>
> Jeff

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		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: Conor on Thu, 21 February 2008 09:19
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: jeffnettles4870 on Thu, 21 February 2008 08:29
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: Conor on Thu, 21 February 2008 06:05
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: pgrigis on Wed, 20 February 2008 11:43
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 21 February 2008 06:54
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: lyle_pakula on Thu, 06 March 2008 16:14
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 21 February 2008 14:54
		Re: Histogram and bin sizes By: Conor on Thu, 21 February 2008 09:20

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