<s>
In	O
statistics	O
,	O
the	O
Freedman	B-Application
–	I-Application
Diaconis	I-Application
rule	I-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
select	O
the	O
width	O
of	O
the	O
bins	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
histogram	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
empirical	O
measurements	O
sampled	O
from	O
some	O
probability	O
distribution	O
,	O
the	O
Freedman-Diaconis	B-Application
rule	I-Application
is	O
designed	O
roughly	O
to	O
minimize	O
the	O
integral	O
of	O
the	O
squared	O
difference	O
between	O
the	O
histogram	B-Algorithm
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
relative	O
frequency	O
density	O
)	O
and	O
the	O
density	O
of	O
the	O
theoretical	O
probability	O
distribution	O
.	O
</s>
