Histogram Bin-width Optimization — histss • pracma

Method for selecting the bin size of time histograms.

histss(x, n = 100, plotting = FALSE)

Arguments

x: numeric vector or matrix.
n: maximum number of bins.
plotting: logical; shall a histogram be plotted.

Details

Bin sizes of histograms are optimized in a way to best displays the underlying spike rate, for example in neurophysiological studies.

Value

Returns the same list as the hist function; the list is invisible if the histogram is plotted.

References

Shimazaki H. and S. Shinomoto. A method for selecting the bin size of a time histogram. Neural Computation (2007) Vol. 19(6), 1503-1527

See also

hist, histc

Examples