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AHELP for CIAO 4.1

ciao_utils

Context: sl.ciao_contrib

Synopsis

Utility routines for CIAO (CIAO contributed package).

Syntax

require ("ciao_utils");

Description

The ciao_utils module provides utility routines for CIAO users, and is provided as part of the CIAO contributed scripts package.

Loading the routines

The module can be loaded into ChIPS or Sherpa by saying:

require ("ciao_utils");

Contents

The utils module currenly provides the routines:

  • simple_stats() - calculate several basic statistic values for an array of numbers
  • simple_hist() - calculate a one-dimensional histogram of an array

See the ahelp files for the individual packages and the contributed scripts page for further information.

Bugs

See the bugs pages for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

Last modified: August 2009



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