"""Original synthetic Gaussian pair; Python 3.14, NumPy 2.3.5, Matplotlib 3.10.7. Run from _media; writes this script's basename with a .png suffix to the CWD. The shaded band is one conditional standard deviation, not a confidence interval. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): rng = np.random.default_rng(314159) x, z = rng.standard_normal((2, 1800)) y = 0.6 * x + 0.8 * z selected = x > 1 grid = np.linspace(-3.5, 3.5, 400) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8.2, 5.7), layout="constrained") fig.set_facecolor("white") ax.set_facecolor("white") ax.axvspan(1, 3.5, color="#f6d3a6", alpha=0.30) ax.fill_between(grid, 0.6 * grid - 0.8, 0.6 * grid + 0.8, color="#d9eaf7", label="One conditional SD: 0.8") ax.scatter(x[~selected], y[~selected], s=9, color="#617586", alpha=0.30, edgecolors="none", label="Generated pairs with X ≤ 1") ax.scatter(x[selected], y[selected], s=13, color="#c87920", alpha=0.60, edgecolors="none", label="Generated pairs selected by X > 1") ax.plot(grid, grid, "--", color="#454545", linewidth=1.6, label="No change: Y = X") ax.plot(grid, 0.6 * grid, color="#135a99", linewidth=2.5, label="Conditional mean: E[Y | X = x] = 0.6x") ax.axvline(1, color="#c87920", linewidth=1.1) ax.axhline(0, color="#bbbbbb", linewidth=0.6) ax.axvline(0, color="#bbbbbb", linewidth=0.6) ax.errorbar(2, 1.2, yerr=0.8, fmt="o", color="#103e65", capsize=5, linewidth=2, zorder=5) ax.annotate("At X = 2: mean 1.2, SD 0.8", xy=(2, 1.2), xytext=(-3.2, -2.75), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "#103e65"}, fontsize=11, bbox={"facecolor": "white", "edgecolor": "none", "alpha": 0.94}) ax.set(xlim=(-3.5, 3.5), ylim=(-3.5, 3.5), xlabel="First measurement X (standardized units)", ylabel="Second measurement Y (standardized units)", title="Synthetic Gaussian model: correlation 0.6\n" "1,800 generated pairs; no actual measurements") ax.legend(loc="upper left", fontsize=9, framealpha=0.96) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.savefig(Path(__file__).with_suffix(".png").name, dpi=140, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()