Re: How to save advanced-filter settings (fwd)

[Bob <bob statland org>]

OK, I see part of the problem is over the meaning of "histogram".
Everywhere except in spreadseets it means a graphical display. So I
started by clicking on the graphical display icon.  If I go your route
I do not get a graphical display, I get a frequency table (with really
weird bin boundaries).  Here is a nice implementation of histograms in
the free Stats Homework software:

http://facultyweb.berry.edu/vbissonnette/statshw/doc/histogram.html

If it seems like the dialog box is missing it is because at the first
step you get a draft histogram automatically and the dialog consists
of buttons to edit the default. So it takes one menu choice (which is
not at the end of a long trail) to get A histogram.  And to edit the
draft you can start by just asking for more or fewer bins.  You do not
need to compute the max. or min. of your data nor compute the bins
yourself. 

The reason I fuss about this is that one should never do statistical
analysis on any data without first making an appropriate display so
you can see any problems that might exist.  Excel makes it really hard
to do that.  gnumeric makes it a little easier, and it makes boxplots,
but it could be a LOT easier for beginners.

Forwarded message:
> From aguelzow pyrshep ca Mon Apr 13 09:52:59 2015
> To: gnumeric-list gnome org, bob statland org
>
> Le dimanche 12 avril 2015 =C3=A0 19:30 -0400, Bob a =C3=A9crit :
> > > In gnumeric it should be easier;-) (I actually can't figure out how to
> > > do it in gnumeric but I think you have to chose a lot of things
> > > Minitab and R will chose automatically [while still allowing you to
> > > override anything] What I would like is to highlight the (unbinned)
> > > data and select "histogram" from the graph menu and immediately see a
> > > histogram.).
>
> We are not that far away from this:
>
> 1) highlight the unbinned data
> 2) select Statistics->DescriptiveStatistics->FrequencyTables->Histogram
> 3) On the 'cut-off' tab select "calculated cutoffs" and enter the number=20
> of bins desired.
> 4) On the "Graphs and Options" tabs select the type of graph
> 5) Click on okay.
>
> I guess we could change some of the preselected items so that (3) and=20
> (4) are not necessary.
>
> Andreas


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