[SciPy-User] distributions - who got the most ?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:30 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

> scipy.stats has more than 90 distributions.
>
> Do we want to increase it by almost a factor of 10? :)
>
> While looking for the cdf of a distribution, I found this :
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35008-generation-of-random-variates
>
> He collected 870 distributions (under BSD license). Includes generic
> random number generation.
>
> Even though there are some variations of distributions counted
> separately, given my quick browsing this looks impressive and a good
> source for code and references.
> Coding style is not great but it's 10 years or so of collecting
> distributions.
>

Adding a lot of distributions sounds fine to me. That many distributions
would need to go into a separate namespace.

Any additions should be complete though (the Matlab code only has pdf/cdf)
and well tested. The Matlab code doesn't look all that useful except for
the references ("coding style is not great" is really too kind). I also
don't trust the BSD license that's put on it, many files have different
author names in them with no mention of where they came from.

Ralf
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