Choosing Histogram Bins for Time-Indexed Events
A histogram of timestamps estimates an event rate, and its error has a minimum in the bin width. See how to estimate that minimum from the counts, and when the method fails.
A histogram of timestamps estimates an event rate, and its error has a minimum in the bin width. See how to estimate that minimum from the counts, and when the method fails.
Learn what the default bin rules assume, why bin width is an analytical choice rather than a display setting, and how to pick it from data.