Alan G Isaac wrote: > I would think that > multinomial(1,prob,size=ntrials).sum(axis=0) > would be equivalent to > multinomial(ntrials,prob) > but the first gives a surprising result. (See below.) > Explanation?
Pretty much anyone who derives their binomial distribution algorithm from http://www.unc.edu/~gfish/fcmc.html is also wrong. SVN now has a bound such that CDF(bound) is within 1e-16 (or so) of 1.0. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
