nessai.utils.hist

Utilities related to histogramming.

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Functions

auto_bins(x[, max_bins])

Compute the number bins for a histogram using numpy.histogram_bin_edges

nessai.utils.hist.auto_bins(x, max_bins=50)

Compute the number bins for a histogram using numpy.histogram_bin_edges but enforces a maximum number of bins.

Parameters:

arrayarray_like

Input data

binsint or sequence of scalars or str, optional

Method for determining number of bins, see numpy documentation

max_binsint, optional (1000)

Maximum number of bins

Returns:

int

Number of bins