How does Alan's code compare with using cumfreq and then plotting its result? Is the only difference that cumfreq bins the data?
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/9/10 10:02 AM, per freem wrote: >> I'd like to clarify: I want the empirical cdf, but I want it to be >> normalized. There's a normed=True option to plt.hist but how can I do >> the equivalent for CDFs? > > There is no such thing as a normalized empirical CDF. Or rather, there is no > such thing as an unnormalized empirical CDF. > > Alan's code is good. Unless if you have a truly staggering number of points, > there is no reason to bin the data first. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
