NAME

Statistics::Histogram - Create a standard histogram for command-line display

VERSION

version 0.1

SYNOPSIS

use Statistics::Histogram;

my @data = <>;
chomp @data;

print get_histogram(\@data);

DESCRIPTION

This module exports a single routine, get_histogram, which expects an array reference as its only required argument. The array should contain a sequence of numbers, and the response will be an ascii-formatted histogram, including some header lines providing statistics.

ATTRIBUTES

num_bins

$num_bins defaults to 10, and controls the maximum number of bins in the chart. Depending on the data, there may be fewer bins if there are fewer than $num_bins unique values.

use_linear_axes

$use_linear_axes defaults to false, which will create a chart with logarithmic axes. This is most useful for data derived from software timing metrics, which tend to be non-Normal and biased towards the axes.

METHODS

get_histogram

print get_histogram($array_ref);
print get_histogram($array_ref, $num_bins, $use_linear_axes);

There are two optional arguments: $num_bins and $use_linear_axes.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Douglas Webb <doug.webb@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2005 by Douglas Webb.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.