[SciPy-user] using tcdf

[David M. Cooke]

Miles Lubin <miles at lubin.us> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've looked through the documentation and the help for the stats module, 
> but I haven't be able to find any examples of how to use the cdf 
> function. Let's say I want n degrees of freedom, and want the cumulative 
> probability from the left tail to -x (standard deviations) on a 
> t-distribution, how would I generate it?
> On the TI-83+ there's a simple tcdf() function, but I'm lost on how to 
> do it in scipy.

The distributions in scipy.stats are objects that have methods that
calculate the interesting stuff. In your case, I think you want

scipy.stats.t.cdf(-x, n)

help(scipy.stats.t) will give you more info about what's implemented.

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