.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/statistics/histogram_histtypes.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_statistics_histogram_histtypes.py: ================================================================ Demo of the histogram function's different ``histtype`` settings ================================================================ * Histogram with step curve that has a color fill. * Histogram with step curve with no fill. * Histogram with custom and unequal bin widths. * Two histograms with stacked bars. Selecting different bin counts and sizes can significantly affect the shape of a histogram. The Astropy docs have a great section on how to select these parameters: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/visualization/histogram.html .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 16-52 .. code-block:: default import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt np.random.seed(19680801) mu_x = 200 sigma_x = 25 x = np.random.normal(mu_x, sigma_x, size=100) mu_w = 200 sigma_w = 10 w = np.random.normal(mu_w, sigma_w, size=100) fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2) axs[0, 0].hist(x, 20, density=True, histtype='stepfilled', facecolor='g', alpha=0.75) axs[0, 0].set_title('stepfilled') axs[0, 1].hist(x, 20, density=True, histtype='step', facecolor='g', alpha=0.75) axs[0, 1].set_title('step') axs[1, 0].hist(x, density=True, histtype='barstacked', rwidth=0.8) axs[1, 0].hist(w, density=True, histtype='barstacked', rwidth=0.8) axs[1, 0].set_title('barstacked') # Create a histogram by providing the bin edges (unequally spaced). bins = [100, 150, 180, 195, 205, 220, 250, 300] axs[1, 1].hist(x, bins, density=True, histtype='bar', rwidth=0.8) axs[1, 1].set_title('bar, unequal bins') fig.tight_layout() plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_histogram_histtypes_001.png :alt: stepfilled, step, barstacked, bar, unequal bins :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 53-59 .. admonition:: References The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.hist` / `matplotlib.pyplot.hist` .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_statistics_histogram_histtypes.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: histogram_histtypes.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: histogram_histtypes.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_