Hi, I'm teaching a probability course right now, and using Sage for doing some graphics for my class notes. I've found that GSL implements a lot of probability distributions that are not wrapped by Sage. The problem was reported at
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11572 and a patch is proposed to implement the missing distributions. I agree with some of the comments there about the wrong design of the interface of the class RealDistribution (it is of little help to users to split things into two different classes for continious and discrete distributions). Also the name "RealDistribution" is somwhat strange, hard to find and remember. Something like ProbabilityDistribution would be more natural. Also I think that something like ProbabilityDistribution.uniform([a,b]) would be more natural than T = RealDistribution('uniform', [a, b]) And with the method sintax, you would be able to use auto-completion [TAB key] and avoid the need to remember the names [and the spelling mistakes] But I think that the functionallity in this ticket is very useful, and should be added soon! regards Pablo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
