Re: [Gnuplot-info] automatic binning for histogram

[MadMarvin <ja...@th...>]

Hi Robbie,
not, this is not possible, at least not without making your life very
difficult. Gnuplot is not and never was meant to be a calculation tool,
that's what OOCalc and Excel are for.

Besides, you will always have to adjust your data carefully, especially in
scientific applications, i. e. when trying to fit a distribution function to
your data or choosing the binning size. Even Excel only uses the sqrt(n)
rule although more sophisticade approaches are available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram#Number_of_bins_and_width

I suggest using the COUNTIF functions of the above mentioned spreadsheet
tools instead.
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