testbed/matplotlib__matplotlib/galleries/examples/statistics/histogram_multihist.py

"""
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The histogram (hist) function with multiple data sets
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Plot histogram with multiple sample sets and demonstrate:

* Use of legend with multiple sample sets
* Stacked bars
* Step curve with no fill
* Data sets of different sample sizes

Selecting different bin counts and sizes can significantly affect the
shape of a histogram. The Astropy docs have a great section on how to
select these parameters:
http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/visualization/histogram.html
"""

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

np.random.seed(19680801)

n_bins = 10
x = np.random.randn(1000, 3)

fig, ((ax0, ax1), (ax2, ax3)) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)

colors = ['red', 'tan', 'lime']
ax0.hist(x, n_bins, density=True, histtype='bar', color=colors, label=colors)
ax0.legend(prop={'size': 10})
ax0.set_title('bars with legend')

ax1.hist(x, n_bins, density=True, histtype='bar', stacked=True)
ax1.set_title('stacked bar')

ax2.hist(x, n_bins, histtype='step', stacked=True, fill=False)
ax2.set_title('stack step (unfilled)')

# Make a multiple-histogram of data-sets with different length.
x_multi = [np.random.randn(n) for n in [10000, 5000, 2000]]
ax3.hist(x_multi, n_bins, histtype='bar')
ax3.set_title('different sample sizes')

fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# %%
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# .. admonition:: References
#
#    The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
#    in this example:
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#    - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.hist` / `matplotlib.pyplot.hist`