[SciPy-User] deterministic random variable
Nathaniel Smith
njs at pobox.com
Fri May 28 14:11:04 EDT 2010
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:38 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> pdf(x), cdf(x) with x float would need to know whether x is a support
> point, but which might not be equal to the actual point because of
> floating point problems.
> So, the direct translation of rv_discrete doesn't work, and it looks
> like at least pdf needs to be accessible either pointwise for queries
> or using known support points for actual calculations.
Discrete distributions on the real line don't *have* a pdf...
-- Nathaniel
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