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+/* PSPP - computes sample statistics.
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Written by John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ 02110-1301, USA. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+#include <math.h>
+#include <gsl/gsl_histogram.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+#include "histogram.h"
+#include "chart-geometry.h"
+
+
+gsl_histogram *
+histogram_create(double bins, double x_min, double x_max)
+{
+ int n;
+ double bin_width ;
+ double bin_width_2 ;
+ double upper_limit, lower_limit;
+
+ gsl_histogram *hist = gsl_histogram_alloc(bins);
+
+ bin_width = chart_rounded_tick((x_max - x_min)/ bins);
+ bin_width_2 = bin_width / 2.0;
+
+ n = ceil( x_max / (bin_width_2) ) ;
+ if ( ! (n % 2 ) ) n++;
+ upper_limit = n * bin_width_2;
+
+ n = floor( x_min / (bin_width_2) ) ;
+ if ( ! (n % 2 ) ) n--;
+ lower_limit = n * bin_width_2;
+
+ gsl_histogram_set_ranges_uniform(hist, lower_limit, upper_limit);
+
+ return hist;
+}
+