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Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

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On 10 February 2013 18:14, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 10:35 AM, Rex Macey wrote:
>> I'm new to Python with a new windows 8 machine (64-bit OS).  Learning
>> programming mainly for fun.  Naturally I downloaded Python 3.3 (who
>> doesn't want the latest and greatest).  What I want involves
>> functions related to the normal distribution.

What functions did you want? The math module contains the error
function erf() and the random module can generate normally distributed
pseudo-random numbers, e.g.:

>>> import math
>>> from math import erf
>>> erf(0.0)
0.0
>>> erf(1.0)
0.842700792949715
>>> from random import normalvariate
>>> normalvariate(0.0, 1.0)
-0.2793532098124607


>> Based on my google
>> research, it appears that SCIPY is a good way to go. That requires
>> NUMPY.   I don't seem to find an install that works for my
>> environment which leads to the questions on this post: Is there an
>> install for my environment and if so, where do I get it?

There should be. Why doesn't it work?

>> If not, is
>> there another package I should use? Or do I need to bite the bullet
>> and install an earlier version of Python.  Suggestions and comments
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> A casual google search seems to indicate that for now, SciPy and NumPy
> are for Python 2.x (2.7 is the latest).  I could be wrong though and
> often am.  I know a number of popular and useful packages are not yet
> available on Python 3.

numpy and scipy are both available for Python 3. They have been for
some time and, on Ubuntu, can be installed from the OS repositories.
For Windows the OP should use the sourceforge download page.


Oscar

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Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 09:35 -0800
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-10 18:10 +0000
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:11 -0800
      Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:14 -0800
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 01:26 +0000
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 21:22 -0500
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-10 22:53 -0500
      Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:14 -0800
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:11 -0800
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 11:14 -0700
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-10 13:23 -0500
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:29 -0500
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 19:34 +0000
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 18:38 -0800
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-14 00:29 -0500
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-14 05:53 -0500
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 11:09 +0000

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