Fitting a Normal distribution to 1D data

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You can use matplotlib to plot the histogram and the PDF (as in the link in @MrE’s answer). For fitting and for computing the PDF, you can use scipy.stats.norm, as follows.

import numpy as np
from scipy.stats import norm
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


# Generate some data for this demonstration.
data = norm.rvs(10.0, 2.5, size=500)

# Fit a normal distribution to the data:
mu, std = norm.fit(data)

# Plot the histogram.
plt.hist(data, bins=25, density=True, alpha=0.6, color="g")

# Plot the PDF.
xmin, xmax = plt.xlim()
x = np.linspace(xmin, xmax, 100)
p = norm.pdf(x, mu, std)
plt.plot(x, p, 'k', linewidth=2)
title = "Fit results: mu = %.2f,  std = %.2f" % (mu, std)
plt.title(title)

plt.show()

Here’s the plot generated by the script:

Plot

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