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RE: On partitioning lists by intervals

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• Subject: [mg80414] RE: [mg80396] On partitioning lists by intervals
• From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
• Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200708210903.FAA14595@smc.vnet.net>

Hi Mauricio

> I'm just starting in mathematica and I realise this is a very 
> basic question, but I tried to find an answer on the 
> documentation center for a couple of hours and on the archive 
> for mathgroup, but couldn't find it.
> I have a list of say 500 different random values. I need to 
> divide it in n intervals of fixed length (for example, the 
> lowest value is 0 and the maximum 100 so I need to get 
> sublists of values that go from 0 to 10, 10 to 20, etc.) 
> Thanks for your help!

... You want to bin your data into particular intervals.  

The easiest way is using BinLists.  First, generate some data

	data = RandomReal[{0, 100}, 500];
	Length@data

... And bin them

	datab = BinLists[data, 10];

If you only want to count the number of samples in a particular bin (ie for
a histogram), you can use BinCounts or you can Map[] the function Length[]
to each element of the array datab

	binc = Length[#]& /@ datab
	SameQ[binc, BinCounts[data, 10]]

Regards,

Dave.

	

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  • On partitioning lists by intervals
    • From: "Mauricio Esteban Cuak" <cuak2000@gmail.com>