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What are the available options for the boxes in a gnuplot histogram, for example, can one obtain a "filled solid box" or a fitted curve that touches the "top" of the box?

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I'm not sure if it is a good idea for this site to have questions where you have to read the question in a blog. Could you "contextualize" the link? – robin girard Feb 15 '11 at 17:45
Please update question as robin suggests, otherwise it will be a strong candidate for closure ;) Thanks. – csgillespie Feb 15 '11 at 18:19

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set style fill solid 1.0 border -1   
binwidth=5
bin(x,width)=width*floor(x/width) + binwidth/2.0
plot 'datafile' using (bin($1,binwidth)):(1.0) smooth freq with boxes
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ok managed to find the solid part but still in search of a way to fit (Gaussian/pdf) curve as in here stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2573/… (this one was done in R) – smms Feb 15 '11 at 17:41

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