Statistics : Data binning vs increased size

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Youssef Khmou
Youssef Khmou 2013-10-5
评论： Youssef Khmou 2013-10-6
Dear Users,
Suppose you have data that is recorded daily( lets say a temperature in different places over 4 years), each time you compute the histogram whether 1D or two dimensional, the number of bins affects dramatically the behavior of the data, the default is 256 here, while there are some techniques for optimizing that number, 256 is fine then?
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Cedric
Cedric 2013-10-6
编辑：Cedric 2013-10-6
As far as I am concerned, tests and statistics are analytical, and histograms (different from optimal binning) are for data visualization only. So for me the ideal bin size is the one which shows major behaviors and smooths down small scale fluctuations.. in other words, it's a question of scale. If I had to build a "cheap" automatic bin-size adjustment algorithm (e.g. if MATLAB was meant to output automatically series of figures for automatic reports generation), I guess that I would just implement a loop which starts at 3 bins, and increases the number of bins until the derivative of the histogram changes sign more than a certain threshold (which could depend on the number of bins).
Youssef Khmou
Youssef Khmou 2013-10-6
编辑：Youssef Khmou 2013-10-6
ALL what you said is correct, indeed i did a test; each time nth order statistics are computed while the N bins increases, the results diverge while it is supposed to be stable ( reaching an asymptote from below .).

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