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diff --git a/science/py-corner/pkg-descr b/science/py-corner/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ba0d780bc59 --- /dev/null +++ b/science/py-corner/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +py-corner is a Python library designed to create "corner plots" (also known as +triangle plots or scatterplot matrices) for visualizing high-dimensional data. + +These plots are particularly useful in scientific fields such as astrophysics, +cosmology, and statistics for displaying the marginalized distributions of +parameters from a multi-dimensional sample (e.g., from Markov Chain Monte Carlo +simulations). + +The library generates 1D histograms for individual parameters and 2D histograms +(or scatter plots) for all pairs of parameters, providing a comprehensive +overview of their distributions and correlations. |