weights option for seaborn distplot?

Question

I\'d like to have a weights option in seaborn distplot, similar to that in numpy histogram. Without this option, the only alternative would be to apply the weighting to the

Answer 1

You can provide weights by passing them to the underlying matplotlib's histogram function using the hist_kws argument, as:

sns.distplot(..., hist_kws={'weights': your weights array}, ...)

Take note though, that the weights will be passed only to the underlying histogram; neither the kde, nor the fit functions of the distplot will be affected.