Histogram

What is a histogram?

The visual representation that charts the frequency distribution of variables in a data set. A frequency distribution shows the regularity of an occurrence of a value in a set of data. Often confused with a bar chart, although there are certain defining characteristics of differentiation.

The x-axis consists of equal width bars without space in between, known as bins or buckets that represent a range of classes.
x axis is the class interval and is labelled with a number rather than a description.
The y axis represents the frequency of occurrence of a value.
Bar graphs represents data that is discrete or categorical in nature

Uses In statistics to show the frequency of a specific value within a certain range. Used to analyse large amounts of data easily to detect trends and patterns.

Change-log:

06/04/2023 - Initial release
04/04/2023 - Foundation code

Compilation

type make or cc -o histo histogram.c -lm on the command line

Misc.

I have included both uniform and gaussian (normal) distribution data files. Gnuplot or some equivelant application is required to graph the histogram data.

Todo

Need to use SDL2 to plot a graph of the output
Logical bugs still exit, this is very much still a work in progress.

Author(s)

Jason Bou-Samra