\documentclass[varwidth=true, border=5pt]{article} \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning} \usepackage{helvet} \usepackage[eulergreek]{sansmath} \pgfmathdeclarefunction{gauss}{2}{% \pgfmathparse{1/(sqrt(2*pi*#2))*exp(-((x-#1)^2)/(2*#2))}% } % to be used: \gauss(x)(mean)(variance) \makeatletter \newcommand{\pgfplotsdrawaxis}{\pgfplots@draw@axis} \makeatother \pgfplotsset{ tick label style = {font=\sansmath\sffamily}, every axis label/.append style={font=\sffamily\footnotesize}, } \pgfplotsset{axis line on top/.style={ axis line style=transparent, ticklabel style=transparent, tick style=transparent, axis on top=false, after end axis/.append code={ \pgfplotsset{axis line style=opaque, ticklabel style=opaque, tick style=opaque, grid=none} \pgfplotsdrawaxis} } } \tikzset{>=latex} \newcommand{\meanI}{80} \newcommand{\meanII}{40} \newcommand{\varI}{40} \newcommand{\varII}{40} \newcommand{\arrowHeight}{0.02} \newcommand{\labelheight}{0.055} \pgfmathsetmacro{\meanIheight}{1/(sqrt(2*pi*\varI))}% \pgfmathsetmacro{\meanIIheight}{1/(sqrt(2*pi*\varII))}% \pgfmathsetmacro{\plotheight}{max(\meanIheight, \meanIIheight, \labelheight+0.002)}% \begin{document} \begin{preview} \tikzstyle{plotA}=[ultra thick,red!90!black] \tikzstyle{plotB}=[ultra thick,cyan!50!black] \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ width=13.5cm, height=8.625cm, % Grid grid = major, grid style={thin, dashed}, % size xmin= 20, % start the diagram at this x-coordinate xmax= 105, % end the diagram at this x-coordinate ymin= 0, % start the diagram at this y-coordinate ymax= \plotheight, % end the diagram at this y-coordinate % Legende legend style={ font=\large\sansmath\sffamily, at={(0.5,-0.18)}, anchor=north, legend cell align=left, legend columns=-1, column sep=0.5cm }, % Ticks tick align=inside, scaled y ticks = false, ytick=\empty, % Axis axis lines = middle, axis line style = very thick, axis line on top, axis line style = {very thick,shorten <=-0.5\pgflinewidth}, xlabel=$x$, x label style={at={(axis description cs:0.52,0)}, anchor=north, font=\boldmath\Large}, ylabel=$f(x)$, y label style={at={(axis description cs:0,0.5)}, anchor=south, rotate=90, font=\boldmath\Large}, ] % Mark means \coordinate (axisOrigin) at (axis cs:0,0); \coordinate (meanA) at (axis cs:\meanI,\meanIheight); \draw[black,thick](meanA |- axisOrigin) -- (meanA); \coordinate (meanB) at (axis cs:\meanII,\meanIIheight); \draw[black,thick](meanB |- axisOrigin) -- (meanB); \draw[black,ultra thick,<->](axis cs:{\meanI-sqrt(\varI)}, \arrowHeight) -- (axis cs:{\meanI+sqrt(\varI)},\arrowHeight); % Plots of the distributions \addplot [domain=0:120,samples=400,plotA] {gauss(\meanI,\varI)}; \addplot [domain=0:120,samples=400,plotB] {gauss(\meanII,\varII)}; % Add labels \node[plotA,above] at (axis cs:\meanI+11,\labelheight){\Large $\mathcal{N}(\meanI, \varI)$}; \node[plotB,above] at (axis cs:\meanII-11,\labelheight){\Large $\mathcal{N}(\meanII, \varII)$}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{preview} \end{document}