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 give reference to the much more complete numpy.random (and Wikipedia >and/or Mathworld) entries rather than merely 'any statistics text' (many of >which will not describe all).
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