On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 04:12, Zbyszek Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:43:26PM -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:32, David Huard <david.hu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Nils and Joseph, >> > Thanks for the bug report, this is now fixed in SVN (r8672). >> >> While we're at it, can we change the name of the argument? "normed" >> has caused so much confusion over the years. We could deprecate >> normed=True in favor of pdf=True or density=True. > I think it might be a good moment to also include a different type of > normalization: > n = n / n.sum() > i.e. the frequency of counts in each bin. This one is of course very simple > to calculate > by hand, but very common. I think it would be useful to have this > normalization > available too. > [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/histogra.htm]
My feeling is that this is trivial to do "by hand". I do not see a reason to add an option to histogram() to do this. -- 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 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
