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Hi,


I am trying to understand the meaning of nBins in requesting histograms from the statistical API.

The relevant doc I found is here..

It says: number of bins nBins.


Let’s say the min value (for the histogram) is 0.2 the max value is 0.8, and I specify nBins=7.

How is the width of each bin calculated? is it equal width, i.e., (max-min)/nBins? does it calculate the width of each bin so that each bin contains more or less the same number of values? it is something else?

Hi,


There are 3 methods you can use to specify the bins used to generate a histogram.


You can specify:


  • the number of bins nBins or

  • the width of bins binWidthor

  • arbitrary bins.

There are examples on how the different options can be implemented here. I think that this information should help answer your question.

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