matplotlib.pyplot.ecdf#

matplotlib.pyplot.ecdf(x, weights=None, *, complementary=False, orientation='vertical', compress=False, data=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Compute and plot the empirical cumulative distribution function of x.

New in version 3.8.

Parameters:
x1d array-like

The input data. Infinite entries are kept (and move the relevant end of the ecdf from 0/1), but NaNs and masked values are errors.

weights1d array-like or None, default: None

The weights of the entries; must have the same shape as x. Weights corresponding to NaN data points are dropped, and then the remaining weights are normalized to sum to 1. If unset, all entries have the same weight.

complementarybool, default: False

Whether to plot a cumulative distribution function, which increases from 0 to 1 (the default), or a complementary cumulative distribution function, which decreases from 1 to 0.

orientation{"vertical", "horizontal"}, default: "vertical"

Whether the entries are plotted along the x-axis ("vertical", the default) or the y-axis ("horizontal"). This parameter takes the same values as in hist.

compressbool, default: False

Whether multiple entries with the same values are grouped together (with a summed weight) before plotting. This is mainly useful if x contains many identical data points, to decrease the rendering complexity of the plot. If x contains no duplicate points, this has no effect and just uses some time and memory.

Returns:
Line2D
Other Parameters:
dataindexable object, optional

If given, the following parameters also accept a string s, which is interpreted as data[s] (unless this raises an exception):

x, weights

**kwargs

Keyword arguments control the Line2D properties:

Property

Description

agg_filter

a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array and two offsets from the bottom left corner of the image

alpha

scalar or None

animated

bool

antialiased or aa

bool

clip_box

BboxBase or None

clip_on

bool

clip_path

Patch or (Path, Transform) or None

color or c

color

dash_capstyle

CapStyle or {'butt', 'projecting', 'round'}

dash_joinstyle

JoinStyle or {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}

dashes

sequence of floats (on/off ink in points) or (None, None)

data

(2, N) array or two 1D arrays

drawstyle or ds

{'default', 'steps', 'steps-pre', 'steps-mid', 'steps-post'}, default: 'default'

figure

Figure

fillstyle

{'full', 'left', 'right', 'bottom', 'top', 'none'}

gapcolor

color or None

gid

str

in_layout

bool

label

object

linestyle or ls

{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}

linewidth or lw

float

marker

marker style string, Path or MarkerStyle

markeredgecolor or mec

color

markeredgewidth or mew

float

markerfacecolor or mfc

color

markerfacecoloralt or mfcalt

color

markersize or ms

float

markevery

None or int or (int, int) or slice or list[int] or float or (float, float) or list[bool]

mouseover

bool

path_effects

list of AbstractPathEffect

picker

float or callable[[Artist, Event], tuple[bool, dict]]

pickradius

float

rasterized

bool

sketch_params

(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)

snap

bool or None

solid_capstyle

CapStyle or {'butt', 'projecting', 'round'}

solid_joinstyle

JoinStyle or {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}

transform

unknown

url

str

visible

bool

xdata

1D array

ydata

1D array

zorder

float

Notes

The ecdf plot can be thought of as a cumulative histogram with one bin per data entry; i.e. it reports on the entire dataset without any arbitrary binning.

If x contains NaNs or masked entries, either remove them first from the array (if they should not taken into account), or replace them by -inf or +inf (if they should be sorted at the beginning or the end of the array).

Examples using matplotlib.pyplot.ecdf#

Plotting cumulative distributions

Plotting cumulative distributions