`scipy.stats._continuous_distns:maxwell_gen`

source: /scipy/stats/_continuous_distns.py:7080

Signature

class maxwell_gen(momtype = 1, a = None, b = None, xtol = 1e-14, badvalue = None, name = None, longname = None, shapes = None, seed = None)

Members

_cdf
_entropy
_isf
_logpdf
_pdf
_ppf
_rvs
_sf
_shape_info
_stats

Summary

A Maxwell continuous random variable.

Extended Summary

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Notes

A special case of a chi distribution, with df=3, loc=0.0, and given scale = a, where a is the parameter used in the Mathworld description ^[1].

The probability density function for maxwell is:

f (x) = 2/ π x^{2} exp (- x^{2} /2)

for $x >= 0$ .

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Aliases

scipy.stats._continuous_distns.maxwell_gen