Merge pull request #2854 from NelleV/doc_fix_hist

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit b5a6c49fa21d · 2014-02-28T14:43:25.000-05:00
DOC hist is not cumulative by default
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -5303,7 +5303,7 @@ def hist(self, x, bins=10, range=None, normed=False, weights=None,
             (instead of 1).  If `normed` is True, the weights are normalized,
             so that the integral of the density over the range remains 1.
 
-        cumulative : boolean, optional, default : True
+        cumulative : boolean, optional, default : False
             If `True`, then a histogram is computed where each bin gives the
             counts in that bin plus all bins for smaller values. The last bin
             gives the total number of datapoints.  If `normed` is also `True`
