Mario....that's it.  The gamma function only wants integers.

Thanks!


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:29 AM, mario <[email protected]> wrote:

> I get the same error message, using the development version; putting
> instead
>
> shape = 4
> scale = 2
>
> (not float) it does not give an error.
>
>
> On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:05:07 PM UTC+1, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm having a little trouble with some integration.
>>
>> My goal is to set up a cumulative distribution for some functions.  The
>> one below is my attempt at the gamma distribution.  However, it does not
>> like the integrate statement.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> x, y, t = symbols('x y t')
>> >>> shape = float(4.0)
>> >>> scale = float(1.5)
>> >>> z2 = (scale**shape)*gamma(shape)
>> >>> y = ((x*(shape-1))*exp(-x/scale))/z2
>> >>> y
>> 0.0987654320987654*x*exp(-0.666666666666667*x)
>> >>> integrate(y,(x,0,t))
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sympy/utilities/decorator.py",
>> line 30, in threaded_func
>>     return func(expr, *args, **kwargs)
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sympy/integrals/integrals.py",
>> line 1626, in integrate
>>     risch=risch, manual=manual)
>>
>> Has anyone run into this before, please?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Erin
>>
>>
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