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 the model behind counting events in time, why its variance equals its mean, and which real event streams violate the independence it assumes.