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NAME

gs-histogram- compute histogram of data on stdin

SYNOPSYS

gs-histogram xmin xmax [n]

DESCRIPTION

gs-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.

gs-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gs-histogram -100 100 200 > histogram.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

AUTHOR

gs-histogram was written by Brian Gough. Copyright 199-2000; 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.