This is also an excellent resource: "How To Ask Questions The Smart
Way," by the peerless Eric Steven Raymond:
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

On Jul 3, 8:17 pm, Ahmed Fasih <wuzzyv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Writing your own is a good way to understand the implementation issues
> that we sometimes unthinkingly rely on, but for production code, it's
> always a good idea to default to the pre-packaged implementation.
>
> In this case, I think it's the standard issue with Scipy not
> understanding Sage types. This problem is described 
> inhttp://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#Typeissuesusingscipy.2Ccvxoptornumpyfrom...
>
> sage: import scipy.stats as stats
> sage: stats.binom.pmf(1,10,.56,0)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call
> last)
> <snip>
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'numpy.ndarray' and
> 'numpy.bool_'
>
> There are numerous fixes to this problem, one of which is:
>
> sage: stats.binom.pmf(1r,10r,.56r,0r)
> 0.0034614823012532187
>
> As an alternative, if you plan on doing everything in Scipy/Numpy and
> don't mind a fat-fisted approach, you may want to use IPython in Pylab
> mode: start Sage with "sage -ipython -pylab" and you don't have to
> worry about the preprocessor.
>
> On Jul 3, 3:30 pm, Mikie <thephantom6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am trying to use the binomial pmf function in Scipy.  Forget the
> > question I will write my own.
> > Thanx
>
> > On Jul 3, 9:32 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Mikie<thephantom6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > What is the syntax to get the binomial function in Scipy to calculate?
> > > > I have tried stats.binom.pmf(1,10,.56,0) etc.
> > > > Thanks  for the help.
>
> > > (1) I don't understand the question.  What does your question mean?
>
> > > (2) Possibly you should also ask on the scipy support list, where
> > > there are likely to be more scipy experts...
>
> > > --
> > > William Stein
> > > Associate Professor of Mathematics
> > > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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