Histogram bin explorer

Change the picture without changing the numbers.

Interactive laboratory 04

Same observations, different histograms

The dataset contains 32 invented waiting times in minutes. Changing the number of bins changes the shape of the graph, not the data.

Sample median—
Interquartile range—
Number of observations32
Show frequency table and exact intervals

The intervals include the lower bound and exclude the upper bound, except that the last interval includes its upper bound.

Waiting-time interval (minutes)Count

The quartiles use type-7 interpolation. They do not change with the bin count. This is a synthetic demonstration, not an empirical dataset.

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