* Finding a bin in gsl_histogram
@ 2008-08-08 10:52 Patrick Alken
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From: Patrick Alken @ 2008-08-08 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I was suprised to see there is no function in the gsl histogram
module to find the bin corresponding to a given x value. There is
an internal function called find() to accomplish this, but I
think it would be useful to make an API for this routine.
For example I have an application in which I need to bin data
and compute the mean of the data in each bin. This can be done
with a running mean (keeping the current value of the mean as
the bin value) but each time I store a new data point in the
histogram, I need to find which bin it will be stored in so
I can update the bin value appropriately.
I propose to make a new function gsl_histogram_getbin() which
simply calls the internal find() function to determine the bin
number for a given x. This should probably also be done for the
2d case.
Patrick Alken
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