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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram
question (Ben Pfaff)
2. Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram
question (Gaj Vidmar)
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:53:34 -0800
From: Ben Pfaff<address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram
question
To: Erik Frebold<address@hidden>
Cc: pspp-usergroup<address@hidden>, John Darrington
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[cleaning out my old email]
Erik Frebold<address@hidden> writes:
2. Re: Histogram-- I was puzzled as to why this function would
assign only six bins to an n=1000 dataset. Upon investigation,
looks like the number of bins is assigned by gsl, right? (which
I assume would use something suitable like Sturges' formula,
though I wasn't able to find the actual stretch of code) So is
it likely just that the pspp part of the process might not be
quite ready for primetime yet? No problem if this is the case--
I can use matplotlib or similar for now.
I took a look at this. PSPP always uses exactly 11 bins for
every histogram! This seems less than optimal.
I pushed out a commit that uses Sturges' formula, with a minimum
of 5 buckets.