Ok thanks. I did not think about normal. And my background is mathematics (and I don't want to know Matlab ;-) ). Imagine how puzzling it could be for many people.
It totally violates the "Style Guide" which claims: "conciseness is valued, but avoid abbreviation (indexin() rather than indxin()) as it becomes difficult to remember whether and how particular words are abbreviated." On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 9:27:13 PM UTC+2, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > Providing information only--random samplers with an "n" suffix mean the > sample is from a normal distribution. Breaking it down: > sp prefix: this is a method for sparse matrices > rand: that produces random samples > n: from a normal distribution >
