[SciPy-user] looking for a negative binomial distribution

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 02:15:16 EDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 21:58, Chris Fonnesbeck <listservs at mac.com> wrote:
> I notice in the scipy dev wiki that the negative binomial random number
> generator is broken. In particular, it appears to round the first parameter,
> which is incorrect -- any real number is valid, not just integers.

Fixed in numpy SVN. This will be part of the upcoming 1.2.0 release
and probably 1.1.2 if we do one.

-- 
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



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