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How to find x-value of highest peak in histogram?

How to save x-value of highest peak in histogram into variable? Thank you enter image description here

Solution 
  • fileID = fopen('q65.txt','r');
formatSpec = '%f';
file = fscanf(fileID,formatSpec);

h = histogram(file,50);
%Find index of maximum
[~, index]= max(h.Values);

delta = h.BinLimits(2)-h.BinLimits(1);
% find the range for a single bin
slot = delta./h.NumBins;

%location = minimum y + (index of maxmium)*slot 
lb = h.BinLimits(1) + (index-1)*slot;
ub = h.BinLimits(1) + (index)*slot;

location = [lb, ub]

    Location is a range, not a fixed number

    A simple one

    fileID = fopen('q65.txt','r');
formatSpec = '%f';
file = fscanf(fileID,formatSpec);
h = histogram(file,50);
%Find index of maximum
[~, index]= max(h.Values);
lb = h.BinEdges(index);
ub = h.BinEdges(index+1);
location = [lb, ub]