To compare two histograms you can plot a bihistogram as suggested on
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/bihistog.htm
The little function I've written to do so is below. See if it helps.
Antonio
import scipy
from pylab import figure
def bihist(y1, y2, nbins=10, h=None):
Hi folks,
I'm interested in hearing some strategies for plotting two histograms on
the same plot. My goal is
to visualize and compare two distributions which have similar shapes.
My first attempt was to use alpha, but this isn't well support on PS2
output driver (surprising)
and I will be incl