plotHistP

Purpose

Computes and graphs a percent frequency histogram of a vector. The percentages in each category are plotted.

Format

plotHistP([myPlot, ]x, v)
Parameters:
  • myPlot (struct) – Optional argument, a plotControl structure

  • x (Mx1 vector) – data

  • v (Nx1 vector or scalar) –

    Type

    Value

    vector

    the breakpoints to be used to compute the frequencies.

    scalar

    the number of categories.

Examples

Basic example with specified number of bins

// Simulate random normal data to plot
X = rndn(100, 1);

// Number of bins to create
nbins = 30;

// Draw histogram with default settings
plotHistP(X, nbins);

Basic example with specified bin breakpoints

// Simulate random normal data to plot
X = rndn(100, 1);

// Specify bin breakpoints
brk_pts = { -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 };

// Draw histogram with default settings
plotHistP(X, brk_pts);

Control plot settings with plotControl structure

// Simulate random normal data to plot
X = rndn(100, 1);

// Number of bins to create
nbins = 30;

// Declare 'myPlot' to be a plotControl structure
// and fill with bar/hist default settings
struct plotControl myPlot;
myPlot = plotGetDefaults("bar");

// Change Histogram fill settings
fill_type = 1;
opacity_pct = 0.8;
fill_clr = "light blue";
plotSetFill(&myPlot, fill_type, opacity_pct, fill_clr);

// Draw histogram with settings stored in 'myPlot'
plotHistP(myPlot, X, nbins);