[Tutor] Gamma distribution function

[Alan Gauld]

"culpritNr1" <ig2ar-saf1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote 

> I tried the scipy function. I don't understand it. 

Try reading about it here:

http://numpy.sourceforge.net/numdoc/HTML/numdoc.htm

It explains the output format. I believe it applies to the scipy 
version as well as the numpy.

> The python documentation on this functionality is extremely poor. 

>>>> help("scipy.stats.distributions.poisson.rvs")

That will only find the basic help in the doc strings. 
You need to look at the documented help too. The web page is 
the best I've found.

HTH,

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