i wanted to plot histogram for following

status = [dosing, dosing, dosing, initializing, dosing, dosing, initializing];

I wanted to plot graph like this:

[shivraj Krishna kumbhar]

thanks a lot Nobel........

Answer 1

[Nobel Mondal]

% Need to convert the input as a cell-array  
>> status = {'dosing', 'dosing', 'dosing', 'initializing',...
             'dosing', 'dosing', 'initializing'};

>> [count,states] = grp2idx(status);
>> hist(count,unique(count));
>> set(gca,'xTickLabel',states)