Number of Bins Dialog Box

In this dialog box, you can define the bins used for a histogram plot.

To open this dialog box, click the Bins button from the Plot buttons in the panel.

Number of Bins Dialog Box Dialog Box Features

Update interactively option

Select this option to update the plot in real time as you make changes in the dialog box instead of updating the plot after you click the OK button.

Number of bins option and text box

Select this option to specify how many bins to display in the histogram plot. This option uses automatically defined bin edges. To manually specify the bin edges, use the Define bin edges option instead.

Define bin edges option

Select this option to manually specify the bin edges. Use the Number of bins option instead to specify the number of bins only without defining edges.

Start text box

Specify the value for the left bin edge.

Stepsize text box

Specify the width of each bin in the histogram plot.

Number of bins text box

Specify how many bins to display in the histogram plot.

OK button

Apply the changes made to the bins and exit the dialog box.

Cancel button

Exit the dialog box without applying any changes.