Re: pdfxy

So you mean I have to adjust my min and max each time? All my arrays will
have different min and max. SO what you are saying is that I have to use
fspan to find the nbinx value each time?
Setting opt@binx_nice = false did not help.

/M

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Julia Andrys <juliaandrys@gmail.com> wrote:

> It doesn't look like your x variable has a max value of 60 to me:
>
> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>
> So if you set your nbinx and your binx_max accordingly, then you should
> get 1.0 spaced bin integers. Have you also tried switching opt@binx_niceto false? I find this tends to work better when I am specifying my own bins.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Julia,
>>
>> I don't think your idea works:
>>
>> Variable: pdf2
>> Type: double
>> Total Size: 11040 bytes
>> 1380 values
>> Number of Dimensions: 2
>> Dimensions and sizes: [y | 23] x [x | 60]
>> Coordinates:
>> y: [ 1.5..23.5]
>> x: [0.5582121461629868..13.1908912807703]
>> Number Of Attributes: 26
>> _FillValue : 9.969209968386869e+36
>> nMax : 9925
>> nUse : 9925
>> nOut : 0
>> pcUse : 100
>> pcOut : 0
>> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
>> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>> binx_center : <ARRAY of 60 elements>
>> binx_bounds : <ARRAY of 61 elements>
>> binx_bound_min : 0.4511555433273315
>> binx_bound_max : 13.29794788360596
>> binx_spacing : 0.2141132056713104
>> nbinsx : 60
>> pcxLoOut : 0
>> pcxHiOut : 0
>> yMIN : 1
>> yMAX : 24
>> biny_center : <ARRAY of 23 elements>
>> biny_bounds : <ARRAY of 24 elements>
>> biny_bound_min : 1
>> biny_bound_max : 24
>> biny_spacing : 1
>> nbinsy : 23
>> pcyLoOut : 0
>> pcyHiOut : 0
>> (0)
>> (0) min=0.0100756 max=5.93451
>>
>> I'm not sure how pdfxy creates the bins.
>>
>> /M
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Julia Andrys <juliaandrys@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marston,
>>>
>>> When you call the function, there is the option to specify the number of
>>> x and y bins:
>>>
>>> function pdfxy (
>>> x : numeric,
>>> y : numeric,
>>> nbinx [1] : integer,
>>> nbiny [1] : integer,
>>> opt [1] : logical
>>> )
>>>
>>> Because you know your max and min values for x and y, just specify the
>>> number of bins accordingly to get the bin space you need. So you would
>>> specify nbinx = 60 and nbiny = 23.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Julia
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to control the bin size of the pdfxy function such that the
>>>> bin spacing is set to 1.0. But I'm at a loss of how to do that. Does anyone
>>>> know how to do this through the opt variable?
>>>>
>>>> opt = True
>>>> opt@fraction = True
>>>> opt@binx_min = 0. ;minimum value for the x bin boundary.
>>>> opt@biny_min = 0. ;minimum value for the y bin boundary.
>>>> opt@binx_max = 60. ;maximum value for the x bin boundary.
>>>> opt@biny_max = 23. ;maximum value for the y bin boundary.
>>>> opt@binx_nice = True ; let NCL calculate "nice" bin boundary values x
>>>> opt@biny_nice = True ; let NCL calculate "nice" bin boundary values y
>>>>
>>>> results in:
>>>>
>>>> Variable: pdf2
>>>> Type: double
>>>> Total Size: 5000 bytes
>>>> 625 values
>>>> Number of Dimensions: 2
>>>> Dimensions and sizes: [y | 25] x [x | 25]
>>>> Coordinates:
>>>> y: [1.46..23.54]
>>>> x: [1.24..12.76]
>>>> Number Of Attributes: 26
>>>> _FillValue : 9.969209968386869e+36
>>>> nMax : 9925
>>>> nUse : 3955
>>>> nOut : 5991
>>>> pcUse : 39.84887
>>>> pcOut : 60.36272
>>>> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
>>>> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>>>> binx_center : <ARRAY of 25 elements>
>>>> binx_bounds : <ARRAY of 26 elements>
>>>> binx_bound_min : 1
>>>> binx_bound_max : 13
>>>> binx_spacing : 0.48
>>>> nbinsx : 25
>>>> pcxLoOut : 60.14106
>>>> pcxHiOut : 0.01007557
>>>> yMIN : 1
>>>> yMAX : 24
>>>> biny_center : <ARRAY of 25 elements>
>>>> biny_bounds : <ARRAY of 26 elements>
>>>> biny_bound_min : 1
>>>> biny_bound_max : 24
>>>> biny_spacing : 0.92
>>>> nbinsy : 25
>>>> pcyLoOut : 0
>>>> pcyHiOut : 0.2115869
>>>> (0)
>>>> (0) min=0.0100756 max=4.10076
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Marston
>>>>
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