Re: [Numpy-discussion] von mises distribution in numpy.random biased

2007-09-09 Thread killian koepsell
On 9/8/07, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > killian koepsell wrote: > > hi, > > > > the von mises distribution in numpy.random seems to be biased towards > > a higher concentration (kappa). given a concentration of 2, it > > produces data that has a concentration of 2.36. i compared

Re: [Numpy-discussion] von mises distribution in numpy.random biased

2007-09-08 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
killian koepsell wrote: > hi, > > the von mises distribution in numpy.random seems to be biased towards > a higher concentration (kappa). given a concentration of 2, it > produces data that has a concentration of 2.36. i compared the > distribution to the one produced by the CircStats[1] package of

[Numpy-discussion] von mises distribution in numpy.random biased

2007-09-08 Thread killian koepsell
hi, the von mises distribution in numpy.random seems to be biased towards a higher concentration (kappa). given a concentration of 2, it produces data that has a concentration of 2.36. i compared the distribution to the one produced by the CircStats[1] package of R[2] using RPy [3] and created a f