mu, sigma = 115, 15 x = mu + sigma * np.random.randn(10000) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 2.7), layout='constrained') # the histogram of the data n, bins, patches = ax.hist(x, 50, density=True, facecolor='C0', alpha=0.75) ax.set_xlabel('Length [cm]') ax.set_ylabel('Probability') ax.set_title('Aardvark lengths\n (not really)') ax.text(75, .025, r'$\mu=115,\ \sigma=15$') ax.axis([55, 175, 0, 0.03]) ax.grid(True);