Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve

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On 25/04/2015 23:33, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> I'm trying to plot the curve of an exponential distribution without
> much success. I'm missing something very basic I feel, but just can't
> figure it out after numerous tries, so I'm turning out to you.
>
> This is the function generating the frequency of individual outcomes:
>
>      import decimal
>      from random import expovariate
>      from collections import defaultdict
>
>      decimal.getcontext().prec = 4
>      Dec = decimal.Decimal
>
>      samples = 100000   # 100,000
>
>      def generate(lambd):
>          res = defaultdict(int)
>          for _ in range(samples):
>              res[Dec(expovariate(lambd)).quantize(Dec('0.01'))] += 1
>          return res
>
> Trying to plot this data into a frequency curve is proving too
> challenging and I just can't understand why.
>
>      plot(list(results.keys()), list(results.values()))
>
> This results in strange line graph where there is the outline of an
> exponential curve but the line crisscrosses all over the place. I
> can't understand why I am getting this graph result and not just the
> smooth line I can infer from looking at the hard data.
>

Anything that can hep you here 
http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html#statistics ?

-- 
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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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[Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-25 23:33 +0100
  Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-25 23:36 +0100
    Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 00:15 +0100
      Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-04-25 22:08 -0700
      Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> - 2015-04-26 11:17 +0100
        Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 13:32 +0100
  Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-25 23:12 +0000
    Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 00:35 +0100
  Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-04-26 01:31 +0100
  Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 18:55 +0000
    Re: [Matplotlib] Ploting an exponential distribution frequency curve Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 20:57 +0100

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