The classes command can be used to groups a collection of numbers into intervals; the result will be a list where each element is an interval a..b followed by how many of the numbers are in the interval [a,b). The collection of numbers can be given as a list or matrix.
If L is a collection of numbers, a and b are numbers, then classes(L,a,b) will return the list [[a..a+b,n1],[a+b..a+2b,n2],...] where each number in L is in one of the intervals [a+kb, a+(k+1)b) and nk is how many numbers from L are in the corresponding interval. For example,
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If the numbers a and b are omitted, they will default to the configurable values of class_min and class_size, which default to 0 and 1.
Another way to split the list L into intervals is by making the third argument the midpoints of the desired intervals. For example, if you enter
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Finally, you can simply state the intervals that you want to use by giving them as a list for the second argument. In this case, not every number in the list is necessarily in one of the intervals. If you enter
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