Merge pull request #21219 from meeseeksmachine/auto-backport-of-pr-21216-on-v3.5.x

timhoffm · web-flow · commit acb83f4c7be4 · 2021-09-29T19:54:02.000+02:00
Backport PR #21216 on branch v3.5.x (Use correct confidence interval)
diff --git a/examples/statistics/confidence_ellipse.py b/examples/statistics/confidence_ellipse.py
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@
 #
 # The radiuses of the ellipse can be controlled by n_std which is the number
 # of standard deviations. The default value is 3 which makes the ellipse
-# enclose 99.4% of the points if the data is normally distributed
+# enclose 98.9% of the points if the data is normally distributed
 # like in these examples (3 standard deviations in 1-D contain 99.7%
-# of the data, which is 99.4% of the data in 2-D).
+# of the data, which is 98.9% of the data in 2-D).
 
 
 def confidence_ellipse(x, y, ax, n_std=3.0, facecolor='none', **kwargs):
