Documentation on imhist


Task: imhist
Purpose: Plot a histogram of the data
Categories: map analysis

  Imhist makes histograms of image data. The output can be written to
  the terminal, a log file, or a plot.
  A gaussian curve with the same mean, rms and integral is drawn in
  the histogram (this can be turned off using the 'nogauss' option).
  The plotheader can be suppressed by using options=noheader. An
  alternative title can be put on the plot by options=title. A useful
  combination is 'options=noh,t,title', to get only the string 'title',
  instead of the full header.

Key: in
	Standard in keyword. See the help on in for more information.

Key: region
	Standard region keyword. See the help on region for more information.
  For the moment imhist only recognizes rectangular boxes.

Key: options
  These options allow to control the plot. They may be abbreviated to
  uniqueness. Several options may be combined, in random order.
  Possible options are (# means: give a number):

   'nbin,#'      Select the number of bins of the histogram, default 25
   'binsize,#'   Select a fixed size for the bins
   'cumulative'  Make the histogram cumulative
   'logarithmic' Make the y-scale of the histogram logarithmic
   'nogauss'     Do not plot the smooth gaussian curve

   'noheader'    Do not write the header information, just the numbers,
                 producing an ASCII file for a plotting program
   'nolist'      Do not write the statistics to the screen/logfile

   'xmin,#'      Left edge of histogram plot, default determined from
                 selected data
   'xmax,#'      Right edge of histogram plot, default determined from
                 selected data
   'ymax,#'      The plot will be cut off at this y-value, default
                 is 1.25 times maximum histogram value
   'title,#1,#2,#3' Put the string #1 at x-position #2 and y-position #3,
                 with positions measured in units of the coordinates
                 on the axes. If 'title' is the last option, the title
                 is put in the upper left hand corner.
   'style,#'     This selects the plot style.
                 #=connect means connect the datapoints
                 #=step means make one-bin wide connected horizontal
                 line segments
                 #=histo means bins are drawn as a horizontal line
                 surrounded by two vertical lines

Key: cutoff
  All datavalues below the cutoff are not used for the calculation of
  the histogram. Give one real value, which may be followed by the
  string ',abs' to get a cutoff in the absolute value of the datavalues.
  Default is no cutoff.

Key: device
	Standard device keyword. See the help on device for more information.

Key: log
  If specified, output is written to the file given by log= instead
  of to the terminal.

Generated by rsault@atnf.csiro.au on 11 Jul 1996