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plotting in python using binomial
Hi
I am trying to learn python and graphing. Could anybody help me with the following?
I want to plot a graph of probabilities using the Binomial which I will write as B(N,n,p); where N is the total number of events, n is the number of successes and p is the probability of a success.
What I want to do is plot the probability of the n events occurring for varying N but fixed n and p.
For example, if n = 20 and p = 0.1, I would like to work out the probability of P(n=20, p=0.1) for N = 20, ... , 100.
Could someone give me the Python code which would allow me to do this?
Thanks in advance
Issac
I am trying to learn python and graphing. Could anybody help me with the following?
I want to plot a graph of probabilities using the Binomial which I will write as B(N,n,p); where N is the total number of events, n is the number of successes and p is the probability of a success.
What I want to do is plot the probability of the n events occurring for varying N but fixed n and p.
For example, if n = 20 and p = 0.1, I would like to work out the probability of P(n=20, p=0.1) for N = 20, ... , 100.
Could someone give me the Python code which would allow me to do this?
Thanks in advance
Issac
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Are you searching the tool formaking graphs or you already use some?
For the combinatorics, the standard module itertools implements some generators that return combinations and permutations. See http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
For the combinatorics, the standard module itertools implements some generators that return combinations and permutations. See http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
Hi pepr
To plot the graph I was going to use matplotlib (?)
Essentially all I'm asking is given a function, be it y = x^2, y = sin x + x^3, or whatever and an array of x values e.g. x = -2, -1, 0, 5, 10, how do I plot the graph.
I come from a C++ background, so I assumed that you could have an array of x values e.g. x[5] (for the above) from which I could then calculate the corresponding y values y[5], and then pass these into some kind of plotting routine e.g. matplotlip must have something I suspect.
Any ideas?
To plot the graph I was going to use matplotlib (?)
Essentially all I'm asking is given a function, be it y = x^2, y = sin x + x^3, or whatever and an array of x values e.g. x = -2, -1, 0, 5, 10, how do I plot the graph.
I come from a C++ background, so I assumed that you could have an array of x values e.g. x[5] (for the above) from which I could then calculate the corresponding y values y[5], and then pass these into some kind of plotting routine e.g. matplotlip must have something I suspect.
Any ideas?
Well, it depends. I do not know matplotlib. It is likely that it offers mathematical functions including somethin like numpy (that is not part of the standard Python). Python has the math standard module -- see http://docs.python.org/library/math.html and some mathematical functions built into the interpreter. However, it may be much more efficient to use the matplotlib's equivalents. It could also be the case that you prepare x list and the function and the matplotlib computes the results on its own. I do not know. Just generally, the python list type can be used as a heterogeneous dynamic array, zero-based indexing. You can calculate a separate list of y values or a list of tuples with the point coordinates, etc:
a.py
It prints:
a.py
def fn(x):
return x**2
xlst = [-2, -1, 0, 5, 10]
ylst = []
points = []
for x in xlst:
ylst.append(fn(x))
points.append( (x, fn(x)) )
print xlst
print ylst
print points
It prints:
c:\tmp\_Python\IssacJones\Q_27288526>python a.py
[-2, -1, 0, 5, 10]
[4, 1, 0, 25, 100]
[(-2, 4), (-1, 1), (0, 0), (5, 25), (10, 100)]
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If it helps, can anybody tell me how to do the following?
(1) Using x in the range 0 to 20, plot y=x^2 and plot the graph.
(2) Is there a library function which will allow me to calculation combiations i.e. nCr values?
Thanks in advance
Issac