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Aug 24, 2015

Stratified Bayesian Blocks

(Even) better histograms for noisy data — In 1998, Jeffrey Scargle invented an algorithm to perform optimal binning for photon counting data in gamma-ray observations. He named the algorithm Bayesian Blocks and provided an improved version of it in 2012. It was soon thereafter implemented in Python by Jake Vanderplas with a dynamic programming solution. …

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Stratified Bayesian Blocks
Stratified Bayesian Blocks
Jan Florjanczyk

Jan Florjanczyk

Senior Data Scientist @Netflix

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