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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/histograms.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/histograms.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/histograms.py b/numpy/lib/histograms.py index 1a9b41ced..b6909bc1d 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/histograms.py +++ b/numpy/lib/histograms.py @@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ def histogram_bin_edges(a, bins=10, range=None, weights=None): below, :math:`h` is the binwidth and :math:`n_h` is the number of bins. All estimators that compute bin counts are recast to bin width using the `ptp` of the data. The final bin count is obtained from - ``np.round(np.ceil(range / h))``. + ``np.round(np.ceil(range / h))``. The final bin width is often less + than what is returned by the estimators below. 'auto' (maximum of the 'sturges' and 'fd' estimators) A compromise to get a good value. For small datasets the Sturges @@ -678,7 +679,7 @@ def _histogram_dispatcher( def histogram(a, bins=10, range=None, normed=None, weights=None, density=None): r""" - Compute the histogram of a set of data. + Compute the histogram of a dataset. Parameters ---------- |