[SciPy-User] generic expectation operator

[nicky van foreest]

Hi,

I noticed that rv_frozen does not have an expect attribute. Is there a
design reason for this? It feels somewhat unnatural to me that frozen
distributions cannot be used directly to compute expectations.

bye

Nicky



On 23 August 2012 18:36, nicky van foreest <vanforeest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Josef,
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
>>>>         return scipy.integrate.quad(lambda x: x*g(x), X.dist.a, X.dist.b)
>
>>>> X = stats.norm(3,sqrt(3))
>>>> print E(sqrt, X)
>
>> I don't know why this works, sqrt of a normal distributed random
>> variable has lots of nans (or complex numbers)
>
> You are right, it shouldn't work. The point is that my code above is
> this: lambda x: x*g(x), while it should have been lambda x: f(x)*g(x).
>
> I'll give expect a try.
>
> Nicky