Also, I am not sure how to use alan's code. If I try:
ec = empirical_cdf(my_data) plt.plot(ec) it doesn't actually look like a cdf On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
