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by bumbledraven 848 days ago
The seaborn issue linked in the paper, “Treat binwidth as approximate to avoid dropping outermost datapoints” (https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/pull/3489), summarizes the problem as follows:

> floating point errors could cause the largest datapoint(s) to be silently dropped

However, the paper does not contain the string “float”, instead saying only:

> A bug in the seaborn 0.11.2 plotting software [3], used by Park et al. [1], silently drops the largest data points in the histograms.

So at the very least, the paper is silent on a key aspect of the bug.