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New issue 3603 by [email protected]: Automate construction of continuous
distribution classes/docstrings
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3603
sympy/stats/crv_types.py contains a vast amount of information about
continuous distributions. This includes their PDFs, expectations,
conditions on parameters (e.g. standard deviation of normal variable must
be positive), wikipedia and mathworld links, minor notes, etc....
Currently, all of this information is present as code and doctests. These
pieces of code are very regular and could be automatically generated. This
would have the following benefits:
1. Future changes to the interface of sympy.stats would not require a huge
rewrite of the docstrings (currently a daunting task).
2. Future additions of new distributions could be done with a minimum of
gruntwork.
3. We could probably find, cache, and write down results like the
expectation, variance, cdf, moment generating function, etc... of
distributions for whom full symbolic answers are available. These results
could then be used during normal use. This would help performance. This
is similar to ask_generated.py in the assumptions system.
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