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Terry J. Reedy 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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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 42816be02b9b by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7': Issue 10787: Document the probability density function for random.gammavariate. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/42816be02b9b ---------- nosy: +python-dev _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue10787 _______________________________________

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