"Gaj Vidmar" writes:
> Though widely used, Sturges' rule is a wrong choice -- see (e.g., since it's
> freely available and easy to understand
> even for non-mathematicians like most of )
>
> http://robjhyndman.com/papers/sturges.pdf
Which rule do you recommend? I chose Sturges' rule because it
Though widely used, Sturges' rule is a wrong choice -- see (e.g., since it's
freely available and easy to understand
even for non-mathematicians like most of )
http://robjhyndman.com/papers/sturges.pdf
Essential excerpt:
--
Alternative rules for constructing histograms include Scott's (
[cleaning out my old email]
Erik Frebold writes:
> 2. Re: Histogram-- I was puzzled as to why this function would
> assign only six bins to an n=1000 dataset. Upon investigation,
> looks like the number of bins is assigned by gsl, right? (which
> I assume would use something suitable like Sturge
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:58:27PM -0800, Erik Frebold wrote:
1. Here is the .jnl. The n=5000 file still comes up with 5000 "garbage"
errors. It's not so much this particular file I care about importing, as any
datafile. I'd rather not have to cut and paste to purge them of whatever seems
t
problem if this is the case-- I can use matplotlib or
similar for now.
Thanks, Erik
-Original Message-
> Date: Mon Nov 16 22:28:49 PST 2009
> From: "John Darrington"
> Subject: Re: Import data from other file formats and Histogram question
> To: "Erik Fre
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:18:09PM -0800, Erik Frebold wrote:
I'm importing using ppspire's File-Import Delimited Text Data. Select the
file, import all cases, Forward, Forward, deselect the hyphen separator (pspp
interprets the minus sign as a hyphen otherwise)(I also tried selecting the
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0800, Erik Frebold wrote:
Did succeed to load the complete datafile by cutting/pasting all the
numbers into a texteditor (kludge alert..) and saving to a new file. What
would that have stripped out? (the original file still produces gcc's "number
followe
1. Thanks for this. Still mystified though. Did try 1st two suggestions, and I
think I'm running under US-English as this is a fresh install of Suse 11.1, and
I did select US-English at install. btw this is pspp 0.6.2
Did succeed to load the complete datafile by cutting/pasting all the numbers
