<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Raymond Hettinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:python@rcn.com" target="_blank">python@rcn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ISTM, there ought to be a statistics module that can calculate<br>
cumulative distribution functions for a variety of distributions.<br>
This would be far more helpful than creating more generators.<br></blockquote><div><br>Many of the formulas for cumulative distribution functions require math functions not currently provided by Python (erf, gamma, etc.).<br>
<br>(<a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue3366" target="_blank">http://bugs.python.org/issue3366</a> includes a patch to provide them)</div></div>
<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;">--<br>
Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.<br>
President, <a href="http://stutzbachenterprises.com">Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC</a>
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