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 [http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.gammavariate] , alpha is playing the role of k and beta is playing the role of theta. But it's still not clear, because one can confuse beta with 1/beta and vice et versa, like there is two usual representation for the gamma distribution [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution] [http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.5.x/reference/generated/numpy.random.gamma.html#numpy.random.gamma]* Please update the documentation to avoid this ambiguity. I provide an indicative patch which is updating the doc string in random.py ---------- assignee: d...@python components: Documentation files: patch_documentation_random.py.diff keywords: patch messages: 124803 nosy: David.Kremer, d...@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20181/patch_documentation_random.py.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10787> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
