man plbin () - Plot a histogram from binned data

NAME

plbin - Plot a histogram from binned data

SYNOPSIS

plbin(nbin, x, y, center)

DESCRIPTION

Plots a histogram consisting of nbin bins. The value associated with the i'th bin is placed in x[i], and the number of points in the bin is placed in y[i]. For proper operation, the values in x[i] must form a strictly increasing sequence. If center=0, x[i] is the left-hand edge of the i'th bin, and if center=1, the bin boundaries are placed midway between the values in the x array. Also see plhist(3plplot) for drawing histograms from unbinned data.

ARGUMENTS

nbin (PLINT, input)
Number of bins (i.e., number of values in x and y arrays.)
x (PLFLT *, input)
Pointer to array containing values associated with bins. These must form a strictly increasing sequence.
y (PLFLT *, input)
Pointer to array containing number of points in bin. This is a PLFLT (instead of PLINT) array so as to allow histograms of probabilities, etc.
center (PLINT, input)
Indicates whether the values in x represent the lower bin boundaries (center=0) or whether the bin boundaries are to be midway between the x values (center=1). If the values in x are equally spaced and center=1, the values in x are the center values of the bins.

AUTHORS

Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sf.net/resources.