[SciPy-User] Question about the behavior of hypergeom.cdf

[Juan Nunez-Iglesias]

I’m not familiar with this part of the codebase, but after a bit of playing around, I think this isn’t yet implemented, maybe because it’s too hard? The relevant in scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py call is:

-> 2775         m = arange(int(self.a), k+1)

self.a is the lower bound of the cdf to be computed, in this case, an array [0, 0, 0] to match the input N = self.b = [2, 4, 6]. The problem of course is that there is no general way to vectorize np.arange, because you would get a jagged array.

I hope someone with more knowledge of the library will chime in, but I think you’ll have to implement your own looping logic in the short-to-medium term…

Juan.

On 7 Oct 2017, 8:36 PM +1100, Giovanni Bonaccorsi <giovanni.bonaccorsi at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> first post here. I have a doubt about broadcasting in scipy.
>
> I'm trying to apply broadcasting with hypergeom. The problem is that while hypergeom.pmf() accept my arrays without complaining the hypergeom.cdf() function throws out this error:
>
> TypeError: only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars
> Now, I don't know if this is the expected behavior of the function, but from the documentation it doesn't seem necessary to take particular care to arrays argument in the hypergeom.cdf() function with respect to hypergeom.pmf(). Is that right or have I missed something?
>
> I'm attaching a minimal example to reproduce the error, I'm using Python2.7 through Anaconda with scipy and numpy updated to the last releases.
>
> import numpy as np
> from scipy.stats import hypergeom
>
> # this works
> x = np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[11,12,13]])
> M,n,N = [20,7,12]
> hypergeom.pmf(x,M,n,N)
> hypergeom.cdf(x,M,n,N)
>
> # this works
> M=np.array([25])
> n=np.array([3,6,9])
> N=np.array([2,4,6])
> hypergeom.pmf(x,M,n,N)
>
> # this doesn't work
> hypergeom.cdf(x,M,n,N)
>
> Thanks a lot for the support.,
> Giovanni
>
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