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.SH NAME |
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histo - compute 1-dimensional histogram of N data columns |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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.B "histo [-c] xmin xmax nbins" |
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.B "histo [-c][-p] xmin xmax nbins" |
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.B "histo [-c] imin imax" |
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.B "histo [-c][-p] imin imax" |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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.I Histo |
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bins columnular data on the standard input between the given minimum |
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straight frequencies. |
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The upper value of each bin is printed also instead of the centroid. |
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This may be useful in computing percentiles, for example. |
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Values below the minimum specified are still counted in the cumulative |
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total. |
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.PP |
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The |
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.I \-p |
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option tells |
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.I histo |
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to report the percentage of the total number of input lines rather |
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than the absolute counts |
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In the case of a cumulative total, this yeilds the percentile values |
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directly. |
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Values above the maximum are counted as well as values below in |
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this case. |
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.PP |
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All input data is interpreted as real values, and columns must be |
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white-space separated. |
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If any value is less than the minimum or greater than the maximum, |
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it will be ignored on the input. |
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(I.e., it will not contribute to any frequency count.) |
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it will be ignored unless the |
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.I \-c |
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option is specified. |
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.SH EXAMPLE |
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To count data values between -1 and 1 in 50 bins: |
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