On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
I see in the NumPy Book that there are functions to allow generation of beta, binomial, and poisson curves, but I don't see one for normal curves. Is there such a function?
Currently I'm using code (I forget from where) that creates a Gaussian distribution, but the tails do not reach zero (within the range of the x axis) unless the inflection point is less than 0.5 on the y axis.
I'm using PyX to plot the resulting curves and would like to avoid re-inventing the wheel. If there's python code to calculate a normal distribution given the center, width, and inflection point I would appreciate a pointer to the source.
Here's the formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution If you want the tails to be zero you could do y - y[0].