From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Apr  6 15:46:41 2006
Subject: 2.1.72: hist.m doesn't handle NaN values
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Olli Saarela <olli dot saarela at kcl dot fi>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:46:13 -0400

On 21-Mar-2006, Olli Saarela wrote:

| NaN values should be ignored in histograms, but hist.m counts them in 
| the last bin. The following is in 2.1.72 / Cygwin put together by 
| Agustin Barto (thanks!). The CVS version looks like it has the same problem.
| 
|     >> [hi,bins]=hist([1 1 1 2 2 3],[1 2 3])
|     hi =
|             3        2        1
|     bins =
|             1        2        3
| 
|     >> [hi,bins]=hist([1 1 1 NaN NaN NaN 2 2 3],[1 2 3])
|     hi =
|             3        2        4
|     bins =
|             1        2        3

Thanks, I applied the patch.

jwe



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