Re: [Numpy-discussion] Newbie Question, Probability

Mark Janikas wrote:

Thanks for all the input so far. The only thing that seems odd about the omission of probability or quantile functions in NumPy is that all the random number generators are present in RandomArray. A big part of the issue is that getting many of those pdfs into NumPy would require putting many special functions into NumPy (some of which are actually coded in Fortran).

I much prefer to make SciPy an easy install for as many people as possible and/or work on breaking up SciPy into modular components that can be installed separately if needed. This was my original intention --- to make NumPy as small as possible. It's current size is driven by backwards compatibility, only. -Travis