绘制高度和为1的直方图

matplotlib里带的hist直方图工具默认是各个bin的频率，也可设置成normed或density，这是概率密度函数，而不是probability，要想画成各个bin高度和为1，也就是各个bin出现的概率，需要设置weights这个参数，具体如下：

import numpy as np
import math
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import os

weights = np.ones_like(area) / float(len(area))

plt.hist(area,bins=20,weights=weights,facecolor='blue', alpha=0.75)

plt.xlabel('Maximum rainfall')
plt.ylabel('Probability')
plt.title('Histogram of maximum rainfall for warm sector rainstorms')

plt.savefig("D:\\research\\pics\\statistic_warmsectorcases\\warm_secor_rainstorms_maximum_rainfall.png")

参考：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3866520/plotting-histograms-whose-bar-heights-sum-to-1-in-matplotlib