fstroth / findthetail

FindTheTail

Find The Tail is a procedure that is able to separate a given data set into subsets which belong to the body or the tail of an unknown underlying parent distribution. The data belonging to the tail are used to fit a generalized Pareto distribution as tail model.

Documentation

The Documentation can be found here

Requirements

- numpy
- scipy
- jinja2
- matplotlib

Installing

pip install findthetail

findthetail's Issues

plot_data() got an unexpected keyword argument 'save

Hello,
When i downloaded your example and was trying to run it locally on my system, i get this error when i try to load the data into model and run analyze. Can you please look into it?

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-4bb1ef74b529> in <module>()
      1 # instanciate the Ftt (Find the tail) class with data,
      2 # number of mc steps and a name for the report
----> 3 mod = ftt.Ftt(river_nidd_data['x'].values, mc_steps=500, data_name='River Nidd')
      4 mod.run_analysis()

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\findthetail\ftt.py in __init__(self, data, data_name, mc_steps)
     54 
     55         # plot the data before is is sorted and prepared
---> 56         self.plot_data(save='save')
     57         self.perpare_data()
     58 

TypeError: plot_data() got an unexpected keyword argument 'save'