gsl-histogram - compute histogram of data on stdin
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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 > 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
Name
gsl-histogram - compute histogram of data on stdin
See Also
gsl(3), gsl-randist(1).
Synopsys
gsl-histogramxminxmax[n]
