how to generate bins for histogram using apache math 3.0 in java?

Question

I have been looking for away to generate bins for specific dataset (by specifying lower band, upper band and number of bins required) using apache common math 3.0. I have looked at Frequency http://commons.apache.org/math/apidocs/org/apache/commons/math3/stat/Frequency.html but it does not give me what i want.. i want a method that give me frequency for values in an interval ( ex: how many values are between 0 to 5). Any suggestions or ideas?

Answer 1

Here is a simple way to implement histogram using Apache Commons Math 3:

final int BIN_COUNT = 20;
double[] data = {1.2, 0.2, 0.333, 1.4, 1.5, 1.2, 1.3, 10.4, 1, 2.0}; 

long[] histogram = new long[BIN_COUNT];
org.apache.commons.math3.random.EmpiricalDistribution distribution = new org.apache.commons.math3.random.EmpiricalDistribution(BIN_COUNT);
distribution.load(data);
int k = 0;
for(org.apache.commons.math3.stat.descriptive.SummaryStatistics stats: distribution.getBinStats())
{
    histogram[k++] = stats.getN();
}