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A tool to fit data to many distributions and best one(s)

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Compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.3

What is it ?

fitter package provides a simple class to identify the distribution from which a data samples is generated from. It uses 80 distributions from Scipy and allows you to plot the results to check what is the most probable distribution and the best parameters.

Installation

pip install fitter

Usage

First, let us create a data samples with N = 1e5 points from a gamma distribution:

from scipy import stats
data = stats.gamma.rvs(2, loc=1.5, scale=2, size=100000)

Now, without any knowledge about the distribution or its parameter, what is the distribution that fits t he data best ? Scipy has 80 distributions and the Fitter class will scan all of them, call the fit f unction for you, ignoring those that fail or run forever and finally give you a summary of the best dist ributions in the sense of sum of the square errors. The best is to give an example:

from fitter import Fitter
f = Fitter(data)
f.fit()
# may take some time since by default, all distributions are tried
# but you call manually provide a smaller set of distributions
f.summary()
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See the online documentation for details.

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