numpy.random.RandomState.exponential¶
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RandomState.
exponential
(scale=1.0, size=None)¶ Draw samples from an exponential distribution.
Its probability density function is
for
x > 0
and 0 elsewhere.is the scale parameter, which is the inverse of the rate parameter
. The rate parameter is an alternative, widely used parameterization of the exponential distribution [R147].
The exponential distribution is a continuous analogue of the geometric distribution. It describes many common situations, such as the size of raindrops measured over many rainstorms [R145], or the time between page requests to Wikipedia [R146].
Parameters: scale : float
The scale parameter,
.
size : int or tuple of ints, optional
Output shape. If the given shape is, e.g.,
(m, n, k)
, thenm * n * k
samples are drawn. Default is None, in which case a single value is returned.References
[R145] (1, 2) Peyton Z. Peebles Jr., “Probability, Random Variables and Random Signal Principles”, 4th ed, 2001, p. 57. [R146] (1, 2) “Poisson Process”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process [R147] (1, 2) “Exponential Distribution, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution