Re: PSPP Histogram

[Ben Pfaff]

Erik Frebold <address@hidden> writes:

> Fantastic! The 0.6.2 version of PSPP I'm using (from
> precompiled repository for SuSE 11.1) gives the enclosed
> graphic (six bins), in this example from 3838 datapoints I just
> reran. I send this not to get you to spend time fixing my
> installation, but just to prove to myself I'm not
> dreaming. Sturges would suggest 13 bins here. I also ran 256
> datapoints (Sturges 9 bins) which produced a chart with seven
> bins. Have never seen a PSPP histogram with 11 bins-- that
> would have been magnificence itself!
>
> Syntax used was:
> FREQUENCIES
>       /VARIABLES= VAR001
>       /FORMAT=AVALUE NOTABLE
>       /HISTOGRAM= FREQ NORMAL.
>
> SAV file enclosed for completeness, but again, I expect nothing. 

Just for fun, I'm attaching the .pdf file that PSPP from "master"
generates from your syntax and .sav file.

The labels along the bottom run together in the histogram.  That
definitely needs fixing.  Otherwise, though, I think that this
generally looks OK.

NormDataSet.pdf
Description: PSPP output

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