STATS

Name

stats

Purpose (one Line)

Compute and print statistics plus plot histogram of data.

Description

This computes basic statistical information regarding the input data and
prints it to the screen. It is intended for purely interactive work,
use MOMENT if you want to save the results to a variable.

Calling Sequence

stats,data

Inputs

data - Input data (any rank, or type).

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

NBINS - number of bins for histogram (default = 750)
ROBO - If set, compute robust statistics.
SILENT - If set, supresses printed output to the screen
TITLE - Title for plot (default is blank)
XTITLE - X-axis title for plot (default is 'Data Numbers')
GAUSSIAN - Flag, if set will overplot a gaussian on the histogram
WINDOW - Window number for plot (default=current)

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

MEAN - Optional return on mean of sample.
IDX - position of bins
HIST - histogram values

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 1993/5/14
1993/09/23, MWB, Added ROBO keyword
1995/01/12, MWB, Added SILENT keyword
1995/03/29, MWB, Augment plot to include mean and sigma annotation.
1996/07/15, MWB, Added MEAN keyword
2004/07/08, MWB, Added NaN exclusion for non-robust statistics
2008/04/09, MWB, added CHARSIZE keyword pass through to plot
2010/11/29, MWB, added WINDOW keyword
2015/11/23, MWB, changed plot colors to make background white and
foreground black.
2016/08/18, MWB, added IDX and HIST output keywords