[New-bugs-announce] [issue36324] Inverse cumulative normal distribution function

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

Give statistics.NormalDist()a method for computing the inverse cumulative distribution function.  Model it after the NORM.INV function in MS Excel.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/norm-inv-function-54b30935-fee7-493c-bedb-2278a9db7e13

Use the high accuracy approximation found here:  http://csg.sph.umich.edu/abecasis/gas_power_calculator/algorithm-as-241-the-percentage-points-of-the-normal-distribution.pdf

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assignee: steven.daprano
components: Library (Lib)
messages: 338120
nosy: rhettinger, steven.daprano
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inverse cumulative normal distribution function
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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