[SciPy-Dev] Review of PR 8293 - sampling of random variates

[Neal Becker]

Don't know about this particular code, but unuran is pretty comprehensive,
and there's a good book from the author.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 5:37 PM Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The ability to sample random variates from a distribution where only the
> density is available seems quite useful.  Is there a reference that
> describes the method?
>
> Phillip
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:43 PM, Christoph Baumgarten <
> christoph.baumgarten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> PR 8293 introduces a method to sample random variates for more complex
>> distributions to scipy.stats (such as hyperbolic distributions and the
>> generalized inverse gaussian (see PR 8681)). I think the PR is in good
>> shape, it would be great if it could be merged soon since i could then
>> continue to work on adding new distributions. The PR has been open for 7
>> months now. If someone could continue the review, that would bei great.
>> Thanks!
>>
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