On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see in the NumPy Book that there are functions to allow generation of > beta, binomial, and poisson curves, but I don't see one for normal curves. > Is there such a function? > > Currently I'm using code (I forget from where) that creates a Gaussian > distribution, but the tails do not reach zero (within the range of the x > axis) unless the inflection point is less than 0.5 on the y axis. > > I'm using PyX to plot the resulting curves and would like to avoid > re-inventing the wheel. If there's python code to calculate a normal > distribution given the center, width, and inflection point I would > appreciate a pointer to the source.
Here's the formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution If you want the tails to be zero you could do y - y[0]. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
