OK, I see part of the problem is over the meaning of "histogram". Everywhere except in spreadseets it means a graphical display. So I started by clicking on the graphical display icon. If I go your route I do not get a graphical display, I get a frequency table (with really weird bin boundaries). Here is a nice implementation of histograms in the free Stats Homework software:
http://facultyweb.berry.edu/vbissonnette/statshw/doc/histogram.html If it seems like the dialog box is missing it is because at the first step you get a draft histogram automatically and the dialog consists of buttons to edit the default. So it takes one menu choice (which is not at the end of a long trail) to get A histogram. And to edit the draft you can start by just asking for more or fewer bins. You do not need to compute the max. or min. of your data nor compute the bins yourself. The reason I fuss about this is that one should never do statistical analysis on any data without first making an appropriate display so you can see any problems that might exist. Excel makes it really hard to do that. gnumeric makes it a little easier, and it makes boxplots, but it could be a LOT easier for beginners. Forwarded message: > From aguel...@pyrshep.ca Mon Apr 13 09:52:59 2015 > To: gnumeric-list@gnome.org, b...@statland.org > > Le dimanche 12 avril 2015 =C3=A0 19:30 -0400, Bob a =C3=A9crit : > >> In gnumeric it should be easier;-) (I actually can't figure out how to > >> do it in gnumeric but I think you have to chose a lot of things > >> Minitab and R will chose automatically [while still allowing you to > >> override anything] What I would like is to highlight the (unbinned) > >> data and select "histogram" from the graph menu and immediately see a > >> histogram.). > > > > We are not that far away from this: > > 1) highlight the unbinned data > 2) select Statistics->DescriptiveStatistics->FrequencyTables->Histogram > 3) On the 'cut-off' tab select "calculated cutoffs" and enter the number=20 > of bins desired. > 4) On the "Graphs and Options" tabs select the type of graph > 5) Click on okay. > > I guess we could change some of the preselected items so that (3) and=20 > (4) are not necessary. > > Andreas > > > > -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html _ | | Robert W. Hayden | | 614 Nashua Street #119 / | Milford, New Hampshire 03055 USA | | | | email: bob@ the site below / x | website: http://statland.org | / '''''' _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
