[Gnuplot-info] automatic binning for histogram

[Robbie M. <ro...@ac...>]

Hello all

Say I have a single column of sorted numbers (given
here horizontally):

  3 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 8

and want to plot a histogram, something like:

    |
    |
    |               =
    |           =   =       =
    |           =   =   =   =       =
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---
    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8

In order to get the data into a suitable state for
plotting with 'histogram', do I have to fill the bins
myself, or can 'gnuplot' do that for me?

If this is not supported, would it be a useful
addition?  The case above is integer-valued and the bin
width is intuitively one.  More complicated
integer-valued data and continuous data would need the
used to define the bin width, I suppose.

I couldn't see anything in the PDF documentation or in
Janert (2010).

any suggestions gratefully received, Robbie
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