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Histogram and bin sizes [message #58784]

Wed, 20 February 2008 11:20

jeffnettles4870
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Registered: October 2006

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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 :-) ). 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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