Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2009-10-05 15:54 PM, VáclavŠmilauer wrote:

> I am not sure if that is the same as what scipy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde does,
> the documentation is terse. Can I be enlightened here?

gaussian_kde does kernel density estimation. While many of the intermediate 
computations are similar, they have entirely different purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_density_estimation

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