Problem creating a histogram

Hello,
I am trying to create a histogram where each bin is the length of the increments in another vector. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong with:
histc(screenhit,x)
where screenhit is the vector I want a histogram of, and x is simply a vector of numbers in increments of 0.01.
Thanks.

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José-Luis
José-Luis on 21 Nov 2012
Edited: José-Luis on 21 Nov 2012
What result did you get? What result did you expect? It would be much more efficient to answer your question knowing that. If you want a plot with histc, you need it to do it yourself. Read the documentation, there's an example there.

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Matt J
Matt J on 21 Nov 2012
You're not doing anything wrong.

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I was getting a histogram when I used hist instead of histc. But as I understood it, it is easiest to set the size of each bin using histc. Unfortunately it returns nothing at all.
Matt J
Matt J on 21 Nov 2012
Edited: Matt J on 21 Nov 2012
Well, nothing you've showed us looks suspicious, nor does it allow us to reproduce the problem.

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Try this:
screenhit = randi(50, 1000, 1);
x = sort(50*rand(50,1)); % 50 random edges of bins
counts = histc(screenhit,x)
bar(counts, 'BarWidth', 1);
It certainly returns something!

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Tom
on 21 Nov 2012

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