opt_bin: Get the optimal binwidth for a histogram

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Get the optimal binwidth for a histogram

Description

Gives the optimal binwidth for a histogram given a data set, it's value and the desired amount of bins

Usage

opt_bin(.data, .value_col, .iters = 30)

Arguments

.data	The data set in question
.value_col	The column that holds the values
.iters	How many times the cost function loop should run

Details

• Supply a data.frame/tibble with a value column. from this an optimal binwidth will be computed for the amount of binds desired

Value

A tibble of histogram breakpoints

Author(s)

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Modified from Hideaki Shimazaki Department of Physics, Kyoto University shimazaki at ton.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp Feel free to modify/distribute this program.

See Also

Other Utilities: save_to_excel(), sql_left(), sql_mid(), sql_right()

Examples

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(purrr))
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))

df_tbl <- rnorm(n = 1000, mean = 0, sd = 1)
df_tbl <- df_tbl %>%
  as_tibble() %>%
  set_names("value")

df_tbl %>%
  opt_bin(
    .value_col = value
    , .iters = 100
  )

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