Questions tagged [histogram]
A histogram is a graphical representation of the frequencies of a continuous variable. The variable is divided into bins and a bar is drawn for each bin, proportional to its frequency in the data.
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How to quantify the agreement between the same parameter from two different data sets
I am looking at Arctic ice thickness from two different Earth-orbiting satellites A and B. I'm interested in quantifying how well these two datasets agree, but I'm struggling over what parameters to ...
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How to implement Shapiro–Wilk test to my data using Python? [closed]
I have a 5000-sized data,
I generated my data("vals") 1)generate 5 random numbers between(0,1) 2)find the mean 3)run the loop 5000 times 4)vals= these 5000 means
My questions are:
1) Firstly I want ...
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Histogram of Subtraction of Underlying Values
I have histograms produced from two sets of data recording. One of background noise of values $X$ and another $Z$ with a signal of values $Y$ present such that $Z = X + Y$.
How can I estimate a ...
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Sparkline type visualisation of demographics in papers (introducing new 'non-standard' visuals)
It seems typical to include only basic statistics on subject demographics within papers (i.e. mean, max and min). It seems to me that having a knowledge of the actual distribution would be provide ...
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Statistical significance of bin content of an histogram and the connection with Poisson uncertainty
I'm considering histograms represent scalar functions, $f(x): {\rm I\!R}^n \to {\rm I\!R}$, where at most $n=2$.
I read that the content of each $i$th bin, $N_i$, should be statistically significant, ...
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how to calculate the difference between multiple distribution(or frequency list)
Here is the scenario:
I have a dataset, which contains list of data points, each point has F features(i.e. float numbers) and a category(there are C categories).
I want to compare the difference of ...
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What does a p value histogram that is “normally” distributed mean?
Let's say I performed 100 tests and and want to correct for multiple comparisons. Before I do so, I plot the unaltered p values in a histogram to see what the distribution looks like.
If the null ...
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How to approximate histogram(f(x)) from histogram(x)?
I have a histogram of a variable x, and I would like to get the histogram of f(x). Let's just say the transformation function is ...
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K-Nearest-Neighbor classification with only distance/similarity matrices, is it possible?
I want to classify histograms/distributions using K-Nearest-Neighbor. I can measure distances/dissimilarities between the distributions (using euclidean distance, kullback-leibler divergence...), thus ...
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How long is a distribution considered normal?
I have a dataset of metric distances ($n=5800$) and plotted those as a histogram. My initial thought was that this distribution looks normal. But after performing a Shapiro Wilk test and plotting the ...
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Histogram and probability mass function
I have a dataset of a discrete random variable. My question is: Is the normed histogram(I divide the frequencies by the total number of samples) and the PMF is the same quantity? It seems they are. Is ...
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How to estimate distribution given min-max intervals
I have a range of interval data, with start and end being considered as (kind of) minimum and maximum values for an unknown parameter (or perhaps they can be viewed as some estimates of wide (say 99%) ...
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Does it matter whether left- or right- bin edges are inclusive when computing a histogram?
Supppose we have some data that we can compute a histogram for. The goal is to use the histogram to compute Pearson's Chi-Squared Test.
When computing the initial histogram, we must decide whether ...
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Tukey’s rule for outlier analysis: What does it mean when the HIGH is below the mean?
Hi as you know the upper boundary of Tukey's rule is
Upper Range = Q3 + (1.5 * IQR)
however recently I came across something that does not make sense to me. ...
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Scott's and Freedman–Diaconis rules of the thumb for selecting bin width - disatvantages
Scott's and Freedman–Diaconis rules of the thumb are based on the following formula:
In the article here it is stated that:
While these appear to be useful estimates for unimodal densities
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Averaging Histograms
I am currently running experiments which include measuring concentrations throughout an environment, producing a histogram as such:
Which shows the percentage of positions which have oxygen ...
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How to aggregate histograms for density estimation
Within a very large sensor network, each node does take measurements derived from a fixed number of samples taken at a high frequency from an instrument. The number of measurements send to an ...
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How to estimate a histogram for two correlated input parameters when the resulting histogram is known?
Let's assume there are two (slightly correlated) parameters (A and B).
Both parameters are rated with discrete values (range: 1-5).
The sum of the two parameter-ratings gives the cumulative-rating (A+...
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Why is “using counts of a frequency table as data” for a histogram a “mistake”?
The textbook, The Practice of Statistics, states the following as a "common mistake" when making histograms:
Don't use counts (in a frequency table) or percents (in a relative frequency table) as ...
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y-axis ticks of distribution plot
Can I know what are the ticks at y axis mean?
I created a distribution plot of titanic['Age'] data from.Kaggle Titanic Data
How to learn more about distribution of age column from the dataset from ...
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A question about Histogram-to-distribution transformation
I have done a simulation with 1 million runs on Matlab. I have got a histogram for this. Using Matlab command hist(X), (where X is the 1 million samples as results ...
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How does one compare density curves/histograms?
I am undergrad student and beginner with R working on a project that looks on eye movements while reading text. I am now trying to find Areas of Interests (AOI) which are here defined by an increased ...
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Why do we subtract the $cdf_{min}$ in this step of histogram equalisation?
In my question I am referring to histogram equalisation as it is described in the wikipedia article in this example here.
Given an grey image $I$ of size $M \times N$, in histogram equalisation one ...
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Can I use PCA to correlate the brightess of an object with some other attribute?
I'm trying to correlate the color of a blood sample with how high the glucose is in that sample. My original intuition was to look at a histogram of each color channel (RGB) to see where they peak, ...
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Choosing center of histogram bins for fitting
I have a bimodal distribution, and if plotted with Mathematica it looks like this:
Now, the lowest value from the actual data is 8196 and 690720, but as seen in the plot, Mathematica lets the data ...
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Relative frequency question
I am a new user here, and I need some help getting started with the following question:
The textbook answers are a. $19$ and b. $20$. How do I begin this question? I am a beginner in statistics. :)
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95% confidence interval error bars of normalized histogram
I have observational data from a satellite and I am studying a certain phenomenon. I have locational data of these phenomena (let's call this data set A). I have divided the data into histogram bins ...
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SVM classification on distance matrix
How can I do an SVM classification when I only have a distance matrix (pairwise matrix)?
Edited: I want to classify my data in two groups: healthy and sick. My original data are histograms (which are ...
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How to analyze size frequency data from over 70 sites
When I started my PhD, I had virtually no prep-time. My advisor needed me in the field and told me to go grab samples. As such, my planning wasn't the best, so sorry if this is a completely terrible ...
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For a histogram, is there any standard rule about how large the min and max bin should be (underflow bin and overflow bin)?
Working with several large datasets in excel, about N=900. I would like to divide the data into a number of categories corresponding to low, med, high etc. for this biological variable. Histograms ...
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What is a “Nominal Type Histogram” and “Shuffling Invariant Property”?
I'm reading this paper about comparing histograms ["Comprehensive Survey on Distance/Similarity Measures between Probability Density
Functions" by Sung-Hyuk Cha] that writes in the introduction:
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What is histogram classifier and how to use it? [closed]
This question is about the assignment on my ML course..
I have been given two continuous data in a normal distribution and predict the values of both for class labels(m/f) in 2 steps:
build a ...
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Outlier detection for skewed data
I have a dataset as below:
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How to divide the data to analyze [Histograms in R]
I am working on the data of a contest, of 85 days duration, where all the participants could choose to participate or not every day.
The distribution seen through a histogram is:
[Histogram with the ...
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How to standardize histogram?
I have known quadrature points (X_q) for q = 1, ..., Q and known frequency (A_q) at each point. I want to rescale X_q and A_q, so that I have the new X_q_new and <...
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Shouldn't fitdist(data,'Lognormal') give the same result and plot as fitdist(log(data),'Normal') in Matlab?
I am trying to fit a distribution curve to the histogram of some data. (I have used some model data here instead because it is difficult to upload the actual data. I have included the complete code ...
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Selecting the Number of Bins in a Histogram: A Decision Theoretic Approach
I am attending a course about Python and as supplementary readings for the lesson about plotting histograms the Professor suggested the following article: Selecting the Number of Bins in a Histogram: ...
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Is there a systematic behaviour/change?
don't know how to call the title so please excuse the rather general naming.
I've a lot devices and each has it's own specific voltage which I've histogrammed. After the same treatment (meaning, each ...
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Histograms and box-plot match
Can you please explain why they match? I am really confused about the uniform distribution.
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Why is the $x$ axis for a histogram labeled “bin”?
When talking about histograms, why do we refer to the x-axis as "bin"?
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Distance Between 1-D Histograms and Binning
In order to calculate the distance between two 1-D histograms, they must have the same number of bins. I'm wondering if it's preferable to have more or fewer bins for such calculation.
For example, ...
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Can the 'bin size' in a histogram be thought of as a regularity constraint?
When thinking about a histogram as an estimate of the density function, is it reasonable to think of the bin size as a parameter that constrains the local structure of that function?
Also, is there a ...
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Convert a beta distribution to Poisson distribution
I need a Poisson distribution in an application, but in that application the only available functions for generating distributions are Beta, Uniform, and Normal functions. Now, I am thinking is there ...
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What is the correct way to modify the bin-counts given a threshold for a chi-squared test?
When performing a chi-square test, one inputs the expected counts (via integrating probability distribution over respective bin bounds) and observed counts into the chi-square formula (denoted below).
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Why do these two logarithmic binning methods give different results? (in R)
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I am working on a problem involving logarithmic binning. I have a dataset consisting of individuals that have a size value and a production value. I am using an algorithm to logarithmically ...
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fitting boxcox transformation to hourly wind speed
Hey, I am trying to transform and standardize my hourly wind speed dataset to make it make it gaussian shaped. I am doing this to observe the seasonal/periodic variations within my dataset. However ...
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Is there a method to determine the optimum bin size to use for a grouped frequency data?
I need to plot the empirical pdf of the data:
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How does one graph the PDF of a variable having a mixed discrete-continuous distribution?
Simple question: how to graph the PDF of a mixed discrete-continuous distribution?
Does it require one graph for the continuous portion and a separate graph for the discrete?
Also, is such a beast ...
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How to produce a normalized cumulative histogram?
I am having trouble understanding the proper method to calculate specific histograms, specifically with regard to cumulative and normalized histograms. If I want to calculate a normalized cumulative ...
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Generating sequence matching distribution from histogram
One of the developers of lobste.rs recently posted some interesting data showing the distribution of votes and comments for stories on the site. In particular, the posted results give a histogram of ...
