exponential distribution
y = 1/β e^ -y/β
Maximum likelihood estimation
d1, d2, …, dn
Pr{d1}*Pr{d2}…Pr{dw}
X = time until next tweet
f{x = t} = 1/β e * -t/β
from scipy.optimize import curve_fit def fitFunc(t, b): return b*numpy.exp(-b*t) count,division = np.histogram(timeUntilNext, bins=100, normed=Ture) fitParams, fitCov = curve_fit(fitFunc, division[0:len(division)-1], count)