Perhaps what you want is histogram smoothing or histogram curve fitting. Is this for a dot or icon display? Or for a plotted curve?
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 1:38 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Dar, > > Thanks for looking at this... > > These numbers are quality ratings. The raw numbers range from 0 to a max of > 800 or so. The customer wants to see a rating from 0-100 so I normalize them > into a range of 0 to 100 where the raw 0 is 0 and the raw 800 is 100. This > works perfectly. When looking at the resulting 0-100 ratings is where they > see the distribution anomalies. They would like to see the top numbers(say > from 94 to 100) to go to 100 and then the original 93 to be 99 and the > original 90 to be 97 or so. And also smooth out any gaps in the distribution > so there for example if there are almost no numbers in the 40s to bump up > the 30s a little and bump down the 50s a little. I'm sure there's an actual > name for doing this in the statistician's world but I don't know what it is. > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 > Cell: 518-796-9332 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2019 3:03 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Dar Scott Consulting > Subject: Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers > > Just to clarify... Is this right? > > The max of the raw numbers maps to 100. > The min of the raw numbers maps to 0. (Or is it 0 maps to 0?) The middle > number maps to something like 70. (Or is it half of the max maps to 70?) The > mapping is smooth. > > Where 70 might be something else. > >> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I have a set of raw numbers(6,000 of them from 0 to 800 or so). It was >> easy to normalize these numbers from 0 to 100. But as I look at the >> results I see that there is one at to top(100) and a few in the 90s >> and many more in the 70s and 80s. I need to make these numbers more >> evenly distributed and weighted towards the top(so the top few are >> 100) based on the current distribution of the raw numbers. I'm not a >> math whiz and not afraid to admit that going beyond linier equations >> is way over my head. From some searches I see the some sort of >> nonlinear regression is in order(I think)? Or a apply a log (like an >> audio log taper of a potentiometer)? I don't know... Can anyone point me > in the in the right direction? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Ralph DiMola >> IT Director >> Evergreen Information Services >> rdim...@evergreeninfo.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode