Histogram fitting Probability Density, Counts, Frequency

A cleaned up version of histfit that outputs data
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Updated 2 Jun 2014

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I modified histfit to output the fit results. I haven't reinvented the wheel here. I just took histfit and fixed it. The usage is the same. I also made it so that it automatically computes the interquartile range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_range) for each fit. You can also specify the bins if you want. And now you can toggle between plot types: 'pdf', a curve with area 1; 'counts', number of counts; 'percent', put it in frequency.
If you have data that you want to fit to a histogram then use this function. Your data is a vector "data", then plot type. Chose from any of the viable options for the fit. And then the last input sets the plot type.
The output is the handles of the figure, the probability fit object with all the inherited properties, and xydata which is the x and y data to make the bar graph.

Here is an example.
[h,fitobject,xydata] = histfit2(xx,nbins,'lognormal','counts');

Use Freedman-Diaconis rule and plot as counts:
[h,fitobject,xydata] = histfit2(xx,[],'lognormal','percent');

It makes a pretty green bar graph. Have fun.

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Nathan Orloff (2024). Histogram fitting Probability Density, Counts, Frequency (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/45239-histogram-fitting-probability-density-counts-frequency), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.3.0.0

change title

1.2.0.0

added plot functionality

1.1.0.0

Added plot options and Freedman-Diaconis rule option.

1.0.0.0