If am doing histograms, I prefer to use arrays for binning. The general approach goes like this. First, in 1-d: 

$histo[ ( $x - $x_min )/$x_bin_width ]++;

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For example, if your $x_min == 100, and your $x_bin_width == 5, then for $x == 123.45 the line above would add one more count to $histo[4]. Note that there's an implicit int() around the contents of the []; the line above is equivalent to the slightly longer: 
$histo[ int( ( $x - $x_min )/$x_bin_width ) ]++;

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Also note that when the point lands at a boundary between bins, this scheme assigns it to the bin on the right. E.g. using the same parameters as before if $x is exactly 125, the code above would add 1 to $histo[5], not to $histo[4].

Now, for the 2-d case, it's basically the same idea: 

$histo[ ( $x - $x_min )/$x_bin_width ][ ( $y - $y_min )/$y_bin_width ]
+++;

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the lowliest monk

In reply to Re: placing values into bins by tlm
in thread placing values into bins by Anonymous Monk

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