MATLAB: How to change name of “Others” category for histogram with ‘ShowOthers’

histogramMATLAB

When using

hh=histogram(C,'ShowOthers','on');

Matlab will create a category "Others". Is there a way to access this name and change it to something else?

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Access the axis handle from the histrogram handle ('hh'), then use strrep() to replace the 'Others' in the XTickLabel with whatever you want (here I use "Misc."). Then reassign the new XTickLabel to the axis. You can do that all in 1 line.

hh.Parent.XTickLabel = strrep(hh.Parent.XTickLabel, 'Others', 'Misc.')

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