"""Draw a computed Gaussian KDE example; write the PNG to the current directory. Run from _media with: python3 ../kernel-density-components.py Tested with Python 3.14.4, NumPy 2.3.5 and Matplotlib 3.10.7. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): sample = np.array([-1.0, 0.0, 1.0]) bandwidth = 0.5 x = np.linspace(-3, 3, 2401) components = np.exp(-0.5 * ((x[:, None] - sample) / bandwidth) ** 2) components /= len(sample) * bandwidth * np.sqrt(2 * np.pi) estimate = components.sum(axis=1) plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 11, "axes.titlesize": 13}) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(10, 4.2), dpi=120, layout="constrained", facecolor="white") colors = ["#2878ad", "#cb632b", "#25846c"] for i, (center, color) in enumerate(zip(sample, colors)): axes[0].plot(x, components[:, i], color=color, lw=2, label=f"Observation {center:g}: area 1/3") axes[0].plot(x, estimate, color="#202734", lw=2.5, label="Sum: total area 1") axes[0].scatter([0], [2 * (1 + 2 * np.exp(-2)) / (3 * np.sqrt(2 * np.pi))], color="#202734", s=35, zorder=5) axes[0].annotate("Height at 0 = 0.337949", xy=(0, estimate[len(x) // 2]), xytext=(-2.7, 0.43), fontsize=10, arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "#202734"}) axes[0].set_title("Add three weighted Gaussian bumps") axes[0].legend(loc="upper right", fontsize=9, framealpha=1) axes[1].plot(x, estimate, color="#202734", lw=2.5) interval = np.linspace(-0.5, 0.5, 601) interval_density = np.exp(-0.5 * ((interval[:, None] - sample) / bandwidth) ** 2) interval_density = interval_density.sum(axis=1) / ( len(sample) * bandwidth * np.sqrt(2 * np.pi)) axes[1].fill_between(interval, interval_density, color="#2878ad", alpha=0.3) axes[1].vlines([-0.5, 0.5], 0, [interval_density[0], interval_density[-1]], color="#2878ad", lw=1.5, ls="--") axes[1].text(0, 0.17, "Interval area\n0.332433", ha="center", color="#1d4e74") axes[1].text(0, 0.435, "Density height and probability area differ", ha="center", fontsize=10) axes[1].set_title("Fitted probability of [-0.5, 0.5]") for ax in axes: ax.scatter(sample, np.full(3, -0.012), marker="|", s=120, lw=2, color="#202734", clip_on=False, label="Observed sample") ax.set(xlabel="Outcome x", ylabel="Probability density", xlim=(-3, 3), ylim=(-0.025, 0.48), facecolor="white") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) ax.grid(axis="y", color="#e8e8e8", lw=0.7) fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / "kernel-density-components.png", facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()