Hello,
I was confused at this point of the path, when getting the histogram of the binomial. In the histogram axis y depicts the probability of the successful outcomes on axis x, right?
but here on axis y, as shown in the screenshot, i got values from 0 to 4000, while i was expecting values from 0 to 1 (probabilities). What could have gone wrong, or am I missing something?
(FYI: the exercise is about an experiment of sending 500 adevertising emails, with probability 5% for somebody to open them and respond. )
I am not a subscriber, so I can’t view the exercise. But, basically
np.random.binomial(500, 0.05, size=10000)
says that you are going to be conducting 10000 experiments.
In a single experiment, you are going to send 500 emails. And there is 5% possibility (probability of 0.05) of an individual email getting a response.
You will end up with an array of results (having 10000 elements), something like [18, 39, 25, ...]. For example in the first experiment, 500 emails were sent and 18 were responded. In the second experiment 500 emails were sent and 39 were responded and so on.
In the histogram, the number of successes are plotted on the x-axis and the frequency on the y-axis. So, for example, there were more than 3000 experiments in which the successes were in the 24-27 range. There were about 1000 experiments in which the successes were in the 16-20 range.
If you sum up the frequencies on the y-axis (i.e. sum up the heights of the bars), the total will be 10000.
thank you! that makes it clearer indeed!
I am trying to figure out why it is different in the example given in the course. For e.g. it has an experiment that a basketball plaayer makes 10 shots and has a probability 30% to score. Then, give a binomial np.random.binomial(10, 0.3, 10000), in the histogram in the y-axis, it shows the probabilities (values 0-1) and not the frequencies of the different outcomes of the experiments as in the example above. I hope I am explaining it with clarity @lisalisaj maybe setting the norm attribute to True, has to do with that?
normed=True will normalize it. It does appear though that normed is deprecated and instead the density parameter is suggested. I am not familiar with the versions. @lisalisaj is more familiar with numpy and matplotlib.
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(My old code for that lesson was still in place. Whoops!)