[SciPy-user] gaussian_kde broken?

[Robert Kern]

Flavio Coelho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a new bug in the combination Numpy1.0rc1/Scipy0.5.1:
> 
> #generate a sample from a normal distribution:
> a=normal(0,1,10000)
> from scipy.stats.kde import gaussian_kde as kde
> d=kde(a)
> d.evaluate (arange(-1,1,0.1))
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.TypeError                                 Traceback (most 
> recent call last)
> 
> /home/fccoelho/Documents/Papers/YFgame/<console>
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/stats/kde.py in evaluate(self, 
> points)
>     116                 diff = self.dataset - points[:,i,newaxis]
>     117                 tdiff = dot(self.inv_cov, diff)
> --> 118                 energy = sum(diff*tdiff,axis=0)/2.0
>     119                 result[i] = sum(exp(-energy),axis=0)
>     120
> 
> TypeError: sum() takes no keyword arguments
> 
> Are there any fixes available for this?

It's been fixed in SVN for a while now.

-- 
Robert Kern

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