On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just got momentarily snagged by not checking the
> excellent documentation, which clearly says that
> numpy provides the shifted geometric.  I'm wondering
> why?

As with most such questions, because the reference I was working from
defined it that way and gave the algorithms with that convention.

http://luc.devroye.org/rnbookindex.html
http://luc.devroye.org/chapter_ten.pdf

Page 498.

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Robert Kern
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