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# scipy.stats.histogram

`scipy.stats.``histogram`(a, numbins=10, defaultlimits=None, printextras=True)

  Returns (i) an array of histogram bin counts, (ii) the smallest value of the histogram binning, and (iii) the bin width (the last 2 are not necessarily integers). Default number of bins is 10. Defaultlimits can be None (the routine picks bins spanning all the numbers in the a) or a 2-sequence (lowerlimit, upperlimit). Returns all of the following: array of bin values, lowerreallimit, binsize, extrapoints.

  Returns: (array of bin counts, bin-minimum, min-width, #-points-outside-range)

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