Re: Histogram chart - What do the y-axis numbers mean?

["Marlon Nelson" <marlon nelson gmail com>]

Thank-you for that info.  A small tweak to my bins and to the chart
data range (values) and Gnumeric produces the chart I'm expecting.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Jean Bréfort
<jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 15:28 -0400, Marlon Nelson a écrit :
> > Thank you, Jean
> >
> > Another question:  The data table was produced using the Histogram
> > tool.  The 1% bin counts 1011 data points between -1% and 1%.  In the
> > chart of the histogram, the area representing those points falls
> > between 1% and 3% on the x-axis.  Seems like an off-by-one problem to
> > me.
>
> The histogram plot needs one more x data than y data the first y data is
> assumed to represent the number of occurences between the two first x
> data. I have plans to implement hidtograms from raw data at some moment
> in the future.
>
> Regards,
> Jean
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