Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to plot the empirical cdf of an array?

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

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

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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