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Distribution Histogram settings?

I am currently trying to customize the settings for the histograms genereated through Distribution. My problem is that is that the range for each of my groups is variable so I want to use uniform scaling, but I also want to view them with a specific binning, and what happens is I can either have the bin of my choosing or have the graphs uniform.

 

Am I missing something or are those two things just not compatible? 

 

This isn't a huge problem, I can get uniform, properly binned graphs through other means. I just find it frustrating that I can't get Distribution to do it since I like having it along side a few other things.

Re: Distribution Histogram settings?

Here is one way of handling your issue.  You can generate the histograms separately, and then put them into a single window and set the scales and the bin values independently

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );

New Window( "The Distributions",
 H List Box(
  disF = Distribution(
   Continuous Distribution( Column( :height ), Set Bin Width( 5 ) ),
   Where( :sex == "F" )
  );
  disM = Distribution(
   Continuous Distribution( Column( :height ), Set Bin Width( 5 ) ),
   Where( :sex == "M" )
  );
 )
);
disF << Set Bin Width( 5 );
disM << Set Bin Width( 2 );
Report( disF )[AxisBox( 1 )] << Max( 65 ) << Min( 55 );
Report( disM )[AxisBox( 1 )] << Max( 65 ) << Min( 55 );