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Finding the Mode of an Empirical Continuous Distribution

Ben Cook • Posted 2021-03-02 • Last updated 2021-10-21

October 21, 2021March 2, 2021 by Ben Cook

You can find the mode of an empirical continuous distribution by plotting the histogram and looking for the maximum bin.

Ben Cook • Posted 2021-02-22 • Last updated 2021-10-21

October 21, 2021February 22, 2021 by Ben Cook

A simple NumPy implementation of the binary cross entropy loss function and some intuition about why it works.

Ben Cook • Posted 2021-01-21 • Last updated 2021-10-21

October 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by Ben Cook

The histplot() function in Seaborn is a great API for plotting histograms to visualize the distribution of your Pandas columns.

Ben Cook • Posted 2020-12-24 • Last updated 2021-10-21

October 21, 2021December 24, 2020 by Ben Cook

If you have a random sample drawn from a continuous uniform(a, b) distribution stored in an array x, the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of a is…