Non-sequential Hist Bins

Hello,

I am trying to use non-sequential histogram bins with an empirical CDF displayed over the YY plot in MATLAB 2017a. By non-sequential histogram bins I mean 1870-1879, 1880-1889, 1890-1899, etc. Currerntly, my code looks like:

%bins = round(min(death),-1)-5:10:round(max(death),-1)+5;
bins = [1870 1879 1880 1889 1890 1899 1900];
[y1,x1] = hist(death,bins);
[y2,x2] = ecdf(death);
plotyy(x1,y1,x2,y2,@(x,y)bar(x,y,1,'c'),'stairs')

Where I commented out the first line of code after realizing I was double counting some people's deaths that fall on even decade values (i.e. 1990, 1910, 1920, etc.) Thanks

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I would experiment with the histc (link) function instead. It allows you to define the bin ranges instead of the bin centres.

[Guillaume]

Both hist and histc have long been deprecated. Since R2014b, histcounts is recommended instead of histc.

[Steven Lord]

And since the last line of code uses plotyy (also not recommended, in favor of yyaxis) to plot the histogram using stairs, using histogram with DisplayStyle 'stairs' may be a good replacement.

[Star Strider]

Both true. However not everyone has R2014b or later. I am assuming ‘John’ is one.

[Steven Lord]

You are correct that not everyone is using release R2014b or later, but John's first sentence ends "in MATLAB 2017a" so yyaxis and histogram are both available.

[Star Strider]

Noted.

I figured that since he is using hist, he would have seen the deprecation notice, and was using the deprecated versions for compatibility reasons.