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
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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
Changes by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com:
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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].
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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
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Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com:
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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
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org:
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