What is the proper way to set y tick labels for a histogram ?

Hi all,

I’m plotting the histogram of a data set:

x = datalist
bins= 100
hist(x,bins,normed=0) #returns a tupple (n,bins,patches)

Rather trivial… but instead of the plotting the counts n, I’d like to plot the realtive percentage counts, i.e. n/len(x). I can’t really use the option normed = 1 which plots n/(len(x)*dbins). I guess the simplest way would be to simply change the yticklabels (by dividing them by len(x)). The thing is that I simply cannot find out how to do this…

I tried using the axes.set_yticklabels() but doesn’t work. I’ve also tried to find the child containing the label but couldn’t find it (not in Axes, nor in YAxis etc…). I guess it must be a Text instance.

Can anyone give me a
hint,

Cheers,

Aure

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Hi Aure,

You could try:

ax.set_yticklabels(ax.get_yticks()/len(x))

/Antonio

Aur� Gourrier wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm plotting the histogram of a data set:

x = datalist
bins= 100
hist(x,bins,normed=0) #returns a tupple (n,bins,patches)

Rather trivial... but instead of the plotting the counts n, I'd like to plot the realtive percentage counts, i.e. n/len(x). I can't really use the option normed = 1 which plots n/(len(x)*dbins). I guess the simplest way would be to simply change the yticklabels (by dividing them by len(x)). The thing is that I simply cannot find out how to do this...

I tried using the axes.set_yticklabels() but doesn't work. I've also tried to find the child containing the label but couldn't find it (not in Axes, nor in YAxis etc...). I guess it must be a Text instance.

Can anyone give me a hint,

Cheers,

Aure

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You can set your own custom tick formatter:

import matplotlib.ticker as ticker

N = len(x)
def fmt_percent(x, pos=None):
    return '%1.2f'%(float(x)/N)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.FuncFormatter(fmt_percent)). See
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/custom_ticker1.py for a
complete example.

JDH

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Auré Gourrier <aurelien.gourrier@...136...> wrote:

Rather trivial... but instead of the plotting the counts n, I'd like to plot
the realtive percentage counts, i.e. n/len(x). I can't really use the option
normed = 1 which plots n/(len(x)*dbins). I guess the simplest way would be
to simply change the yticklabels (by dividing them by len(x)). The thing is
that I simply cannot find out how to do this...

I tried using the axes.set_yticklabels() but doesn't work. I've also tried
to find the child containing the label but couldn't find it (not in Axes,
nor in YAxis etc...). I guess it must be a Text instance.