Hi John,
Yes, that is true if the data is truly gaussian. In my case, I know that the
data have non-gaussian tails which tend to dominate the calculation of the
standard deviation. I should have been clearer in my post that what I
actually wanted to do was fit a gaussian to the truncated "central"
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM, William Carithers wrote:
> I would like to fit a gaussian to a histogram and then overplot it. I can
> write the code to do this but most plotting packages support such fitting.
> However I can't find it for pyplot even after scanning documentation,
> googling, etc
I would like to fit a gaussian to a histogram and then overplot it. I can
write the code to do this but most plotting packages support such fitting.
However I can't find it for pyplot even after scanning documentation,
googling, etc. In fact, the only fitting functionality I could find was the
poly
