Histogram problem
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I plotted a histogram. I now trying to chang the way the x- axis is read.
The Data is huge so it currently reads 0, 200, 400, 800, 1000 Meanwhile i would like it to show the other bin sizes. my bin width is 5, therefore
I would like it to show 0, 5, 10, 15, 20..... 1000
I tried this hist(data(1:29196,1),[0:5:1000]);figure(gcf);
Thanks for any help received
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Walter Roberson
on 2 Aug 2011
set(gca, 'XTick', 0:5:1000)
However, this seems likely to want to place the labels so closely together that they will become unreadable.
If your data is sufficiently large, there is a possibility that representing it all would require more space than you have available in your figure. There really isn't any effective way of dealing with that except for allowing more space for the axes, or providing a partially-visible uipanel with scroll bars (FEX contributions available) that shows the image at a higher resolution.
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the cyclist
on 2 Aug 2011
It would be helpful if you posted the code that generates the histogram, but I am guessing what you are asking for is this:
set(gca,'XTick',0:5:1000)
However, I don't think so many ticks are going to be legible. You might need to compromise.
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Kelly Kearney
on 3 Aug 2011
Actually, I think Walter is misusing the outputs of histc:
edge = 0:5:1000;
[b,bin] = histc(data(1:29196,1), edge);
bar(edge,b,'histc');
is what I think he intended.
Walter Roberson
on 3 Aug 2011
Yes, that would make sense, Kelly. This could be further reduced to
edge = 0:5:1000;
bar(edge, histc(data(1:29196,1),edge), 'histc')
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