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hist - Histograms in Matlab

The hist instruction in Matlab, without output arguments, produces a histogram bar plot of the results. The bar edges on the first and last bins may extend to cover the min and max of the data unless a matrix of data is supplied.

Example:

This Matlab code creates a histogram with 3 bars. The first bar has two '1' values, the second bar has three '2' values, and the third bar has one '3' values.

y = [1 1 2 2 2 3]
hist(y)

The horizontal axis has the different values in the vector to be plotted.
The vertical axis has the number of those values in the vector.

Example:

This Matlab code generates a histogram of 15 randomly distributed numbers between 0 and 1.

a = randn(15,1)
hist(a)

a =
   -0.8468
   -0.2463
    0.6630
   -0.8542
   -1.2013
   -0.1199
   -0.0653
    0.4853
   -0.5955
   -0.1497
   -0.4348
   -0.0793
    1.5352
   -0.6065
   -1.3474

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Note that each column includes a range of values, otherwise the histogram would contain 15 bars.

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