gnuplot "stats" command unexpected min & "out of range" results

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I’m trying to develop a histogram script. The plot itself seems correct, but I have some problems or questions: - I don’t understand why the “stats” output says my data file has “out of range” points. What does that mean? - The “stats” minimum value doesn’t look correct, either. From the data file, minimum = -0.0312, but stats reports 0.0. The script: ``` # Gnuplot histogram from "Gnuplot In Action", 13.2.1 Jitter plots and histograms (p. 256) # these functions put data points (x) into bins of specified width bin(x,width) = width*floor(x/width) binwidth = 0.01 set boxwidth binwidth # data file data_file = "sorted.csv" png_file = "sorted.png" datapoint_count = 14 # taking explanations from the data file set style data linesp set key autotitle columnheader set datafile separator "," # CSV format # histogram myTitle = "Histogram from 
" . data_file set title myTitle set style fill solid 1.0 set xlabel "Slack" set mxtics set ylabel "Count" set yrange [0:*] # min count is always 0 set ter…

Accepted Answer

If you give a single column to the `stats` command, the `yrange` is used to select the range from this column.

At first sight this doesn't make sense, but behaves like a `plot` command which has only a single column, in which case this single column is the y-value and the row number is choosen as x-value.

So, just move the `set yrange` part behind the `stats` command.

```
data_file = 'sorted.csv'
stats data_file using 1
show variables all
set yrange [0:*]
plot data_file ...
```

gnuplot "stats" command unexpected min & "out of range" results

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