.\" Man page contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel .\" and released under the GNU General Public License .TH GSL-HISTOGRAM 1 "" GNU .SH NAME gsl-histogram - compute histogram of data on stdin .SH SYNOPSYS .B gsl-histogram xmin xmax [n] .SH DESCRIPTION .B gsl-histogram is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library. It takes three arguments, specifying the upper and lower bounds of the histogram and the number of bins. It then reads numbers from `stdin', one line at a time, and adds them to the histogram. When there is no more data to read it prints out the accumulated histogram using gsl_histogram_fprintf. If n is unspecified then bins of integer width are used. .SH EXAMPLE Here is an example. We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range -100 to 100, using 200 bins. gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > histogram.dat A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape of the Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample size. awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X .SH SEE ALSO .BR gsl(3) , .BR gsl-randist(1) . .SH AUTHOR .B gsl-histogram was written by Brian Gough. Copyright 1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence. This manual page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel , the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for .BR GSL .