JMP
Tutorial:
Histogram
Click the link below and save the following JMP file to your Desktop:
Unemployment Rates by State 2000
Now go to your Desktop and
double click on the JMP file you just downloaded.
This action will start JMP and display the content of this file:
Go to the Analyze
menu and select Distribution:
You will see the following
dialog box:
Click the Percent
column , then click the Y, Columns box:
Click OK:
Click on the red down arrow
next to Percent, select Display Option,
then Horizontal Layout:
You should see the
following:
Click once again on the red
arrow next to Percent, select Histogram
Options, then Count Axis:
You should see the
following:
You can also add relative
frequency to the y-axis.
Click the red arrow next to Percent, select
Histogram Options, then
Prob Axis.
You should see the following:
If you don't want both the
count axis and the relative frequency axis displayed, uncheck the Count Axis
option (red arrow, Histogram Options, Count Axis):
Changing the Number of Bins
and Class Boundaries
Go to the Tools menu
and select the Grabber tool:
Place the Grabber cursor on top of the histogram bars and click and drag - up
and down and side to side - to see the histogram change class boundaries.
As an example, using this method, you can produce the following histogram:
If you plan to continue
using JMP, go to the Tools menu and select the default Arrow tool:
(Based on JMP Pro 16.0.0 Updated 7/5/2021)