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Python documentation on creation of an exponential random variable

Computational Science Asked on November 16, 2020

I didn’t really know if this stack was the right place to post but I was reading the documentation for creating an exponential random variable in numpy. But isn’t there a typo. Like shouldn’t it be :

$f(x; beta) = frac{1}{beta} exp(-frac{x}{beta})$ instead of $f(x; frac{1}{beta}) = frac{1}{beta} exp(-frac{x}{beta})$?

One Answer

From the source on GitHub, the function does accept $beta$, so even if expressing the function in terms of $frac{1}{beta}$ (rather than $lambda=frac{1}{beta}$) was typical, it is a bit misleading to present it in this way on the documentation page.

Answered by Tyberius on November 16, 2020

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