ploticus: multidist prefab

## multidist prefab | Welcome Gallery Handbook |
| Manual page for multidist_prefab(PL)

## EXAMPLE 1

      pl  -prefab multidist  overlay=yes  data=data21  rotate=yes  \
         xrange="0 2000"  yrange="0 20"

           The data21 file is like this:
           sample1	380	239	384	384	1220	888
           sample2	778	870	398	499	1472

    		..etc.

How to run these examples

## DESCRIPTION

multidist is similar to dist except that it can produce multiple, overlaid frequency distributions, each from a separate data field (column).`` Except as noted below, all of the dist parameters may be used, and multidist was contributed as a backwards-compatible replacement for dist.`` Contributed by Marshall Rose; please forward any questions to him at `mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us`

## PARAMETERS

  overlay may be given as `yes`, which causes multiple distributions to be done. Each field (column) of the data will be tabulated individually and a distribution computed and plotted. The first row of the data gives the name for each category, and is used in the legend. fld should not be supplied. xrange and yrange must be supplied.`` If overlay is not `yes`, multidist operates identically to dist prefab
  rotate may be given as `yes` to rotate the data matrix (as seen in the above example).``
  All of the dist parameters are also supported.``
  data display engine
  Copyright Steve Grubb

Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` December 10, 2002.