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Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 754

How to draw probabilistic distributions with numpy/matplotlib?

I want to draw probabilistic functions (like the binomial distribution), but i don't find a function that returns the probability for given parameters. To write it myself i need binomial coefficients (I could write that myself), for which I haven't found a function either. Is there a 'short and/or easy' to do this?
To clarify: I don't want to draw histograms, and I dont want to fit a line to one.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 16450

Answers (1)

highBandWidth
highBandWidth

Reputation: 17321

scipy.stats.binom.pmf gives the probability mass function for the binomial distribution. You could compute it for a range and plot it. for example, for 10 trials, and p = 0.1, you could do

import scipy, scipy.stats
x = scipy.linspace(0,10,11)
pmf = scipy.stats.binom.pmf(x,10,0.1)
import pylab
pylab.plot(x,pmf)

Upvotes: 13

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