# exercise 4.1.1 import numpy as np from matplotlib.pyplot import figure, hist, plot, show, subplot, title # Number of samples N = 200 # Mean mu = 17 # Standard deviation s = 2 # Number of bins in histogram nbins = 20 # Generate samples from the Normal distribution X = np.random.normal(mu, s, N).T # or equally: X = np.random.randn(N).T * s + mu # Plot the samples and histogram figure(figsize=(12, 4)) title("Normal distribution") subplot(1, 2, 1) plot(X, ".") subplot(1, 3, 3) hist(X, bins=nbins) show()