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gsl-histogram (1)

Name

gsl-histogram - compute histogram of data on stdin

Synopsis

Please see following description for synopsis

Description

GSL-HISTOGRAM(1)            General Commands Manual           GSL-HISTOGRAM(1)



NAME
       gsl-histogram - compute histogram of data on stdin

SYNOPSYS
       gsl-histogram xmin xmax [n]

DESCRIPTION
       gsl-histogram  is  a  demonstration  program  for  the  GNU  Scientific
       Library.  It takes three arguments,  specifying  the  upper  and  lower
       bounds  of the histogram and the number of bins.  It then reads numbers
       from `stdin', one line at a time, and adds them to the histogram.  When
       there  is  no more data to read it prints out the accumulated histogram
       using gsl_histogram_fprintf.  If n is unspecified then bins of  integer
       width are used.

EXAMPLE
       Here  is  an  example.   We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy
       distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range  -100
       to 100, using 200 bins.

            gsl-randist  0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > his-
       togram.dat

       A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape  of  the
       Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample size.

            awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | library/libgsl   |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
       gsl(3), gsl-randist(1).


AUTHOR
       gsl-histogram  was  written  by  Brian Gough.  Copyright 1996-2000; for
       copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence.

       This manual page was added by the Dirk  Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>,
       the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for GSL.



NOTES
       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/.



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