Plot PDF of Pareto distribution in Python

Question

I have a specific Pareto distribution . For example,

Pareto(beta=0.00317985, alpha=0.147365, gamma=1.0283)

which I obtained from this answer and now I want to plot a graph of its Probability Density Function (PDF) in matplotlib . So I believe that the x-axis will be all positive real numbers, and the y-axis will be the same.

How exactly can I obtain the appropriate PDF information and plot it? Programmatically obtaining the mathematical PDF function or coordinates is a requirement for this question.

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UPDATE:

The drawPDF method returns a Graph object that contains coordinates for the PDF. However, I don't know how to access these coordinates programmatically. I certainly don't want to convert the object to a string nor use a regex to pull out the information:

In [45]: pdfg = distribution.drawPDF()

In [46]: pdfg
Out[46]: class=Graph name=pdf as a function of X0 implementation=class=GraphImplementation name=pdf as a function of X0 title= xTitle=X0 yTitle=PDF axes=ON grid=ON legendposition=topright legendFontSize=1
 drawables=[class=Drawable name=Unnamed implementation=class=Curve name=Unnamed derived from class=DrawableImplementation name=Unnamed legend=X0 PDF data=class=Sample name=Unnamed implementation=class=Sam
pleImplementation name=Unnamed size=129 dimension=2 data=[[-1610.7,0],[-1575.83,0],[-1540.96,0],[-1506.09,0],[-1471.22,0],[-1436.35,0],[-1401.48,0],[-1366.61,0],...,[-1331.7,6.95394e-06],[2852.57,6.85646e-06]] color
=red fillStyle=solid lineStyle=solid pointStyle=none lineWidth=2]

Answer 1

I assume that you want to perform different tasks:

1. To plot the PDF
2. To compute the PDF at a single point
3. To compute the PDF for a range of values

Each of these needs requires a different script. Please let me detail them.

I first create the Pareto distribution:

import openturns as ot
import numpy as np
beta = 0.00317985
alpha = 0.147365
gamma = 1.0283
distribution = ot.Pareto(beta, alpha, gamma)
print("distribution", distribution)

To plot the PDF, use drawPDF() method. This creates a ot.Graph which can be viewed directly in Jupyter Notebook or IPython. We can force the creation of the plot with View :

import openturns.viewer as otv
graph = distribution.drawPDF()
otv.View(graph)

This plots:

To compute the PDF at a single point, use computePDF(x) , where x is a ot.Point() . This can also be a Python list or tuple or 1D numpy array , as the conversion is automatically managed by OpenTURNS:

x = 500.0
y = distribution.computePDF(x)
print("y=", y)

The previous script prints:

y= 5.0659235352823877e-05

To compute the PDF for a range of values, we can use the computePDF(x) , where x is a ot.Sample() . This can also be a Python list of lists or a 2D numpy array , as the conversion is automatically managed by OpenTURNS.

x = ot.Sample([[v] for v in np.linspace(0.0, 1000.0)])
y = distribution.computePDF(x)
print("y=", y)

The previous script prints:

y= 
 0 : [ 0           ]
 1 : [ 0.00210511  ]
 [...]
 49 : [ 2.28431e-05 ]