On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Bala subramanian <
bala.biophys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I tried to plot a histogram and pdf of my data (data file attached 1.dat).
> When i see the figure (attached file test.png) , i see y axis more than 1
> (although it should not when i use normed=1. I am not getting why this
> happens.
>
> Somebody kindly write me i) Why the y-axis scales more than 1 ii) after
> plotting histogram and pdf, how to delete the histogram and show only the
> normal curve.
>
> The following are the commands i used.
> data=load('1.dat')
> x=[:,1]
> mu=mean(x);st=std(x)
> n,bins,patch=hist(x,50,normed=1,histtype='stepfilled')
> y = normpdf( bins, mu, st)
> plot(bins, y, 'k--', linewidth=1.5)
>
hist plots a distribution whose integral is 1.
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