[SciPy-user] array vs matrix, converting code from matlab

[Robert Kern]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Gennan Chen wrote:
> 
>>Hi! All,
>>
>>I am also in the same process. And I would like to add one more  
>>question:
>>
>>In Matlab, for a 3D array or matrix, the indexing is a(i,j,k). In  
>>numpy, it became a[k-1,i-1,j-1]. Is there any way to make it become
>>a[i-1,j-1,k-1]? Or I am doing something wrong here??
> 
>     To be more specific, I am trying to convert a function which compute 
> multivariate Gaussian densities. It should be able to handle scalar 
> case, the case where the mean is a vector, and the case where va is a 
> vector (diagonal covariance matrix) or square matrix (full covariance 
> matrix).

Also, both of you might want to take a look at this page and its links:

  http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users

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