[SciPy-User] Gamma distribution in scipy.stats

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:36, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could someone explain to me why doesn't scipy explicitly use the location
> and scaling parameters representing its PDF?

Because the transformation for the location and scale parameters are
the same for every PDF and is well known. However, including them in
the formula often clutters it up and obscures the differences between
PDFs.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco