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Re: There is NO TRUTH! Re: Histogram Hot-shots Required



Liam Gumley wrote:
> Sounds like we need a nice histogram plotting procedure: any takers?

Note to self: before proposing new IDL routines, check the existing IDL
user libraries:
http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/idl/htmlhelp/index.html

The following procedure from the Astronomy library seems to do a pretty
good job of computing and plotting histograms:
http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch-bin/getpro/library01.html?PLOTHIST

For example:

data = dist(256)
plothist, data, bin=2.0

Cheers,
Liam.

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Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley