[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2011-03-22 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot devnull@devnull added the comment: New changeset 42816be02b9b by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7': Issue 10787: Document the probability density function for random.gammavariate. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/42816be02b9b -- nosy: +python-dev

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2011-03-22 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot devnull@devnull added the comment: New changeset e880020e7e6a by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.1': Issue 10787: Document the probability density function for random.gammavariate. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e880020e7e6a New changeset f882b284d260 by Raymond Hettinger in

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2011-03-22 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com: -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10787 ___

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2011-01-01 Thread David Kremer
David Kremer david.kremer...@gmail.com added the comment: Yes I agree. Actually the parameters in the python code alpha, beta are corresponding respectively to k, theta in the first equation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution]. --

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2010-12-31 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: From reading the Wikipedia article, I might conclude that beta = 1/theta, but from reading random.py, beta=theta. I think this much should be clarified, but without giving the formula in a hard to read text form. Perhaps the random doc should

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2010-12-30 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net: -- assignee: d...@python - rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10787 ___

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Dickinson
Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10787 ___ ___

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2010-12-28 Thread David Kremer
New submission from David Kremer david.kremer...@gmail.com: Could you please add the exact form of the distribution, because it's rather confusing in the current form. In this url, the role of k and theta is precised with a formula : [http://tinyurl.com/24jxfrk]* It seems that in

[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

2010-12-28 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10787 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list