Because normed option of hist returns the density of points, e.g dN/dx
What you need is something like that:
# assuming that mydata is an numpy array
ax.hist(mydata, weights=np.zeros_like(mydata) + 1. / mydata.size)
# this will give you fractions
Because normed option of hist returns the density of points, e.g dN/dx
What you need is something like that:
# assuming that mydata is an numpy array
ax.hist(mydata, weights=np.zeros_like(mydata) + 1. / mydata.size)
# this will give you fractions