Malcolm wrote HISTAT so I'll leave it to him to comment.
David
On 26/06/07, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The KAPPA HISTAT application uses a data histogram to calculate the median
> of a data set. It says that it also calculates the mode but it actually
> seems to calculate a fudge factor and in my data is a bad value. Is there
> a reason why it can't simply write out the peak of the histogram?
>
> We're using the MODE for simple sky subtraction of SCUBA-2 data and
> currently this is done by calling HISTOGRAM and then calling STATS on the
> histogram output. Seems a bit klunky when we need to do all this in 0.1
> second.
>
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> Tim Jenness
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> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
>
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