How do you draw random numbers from a given scipy random distribution?

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I'm trying to generate random numbers from a given scipy stats random distribution, in my case a negative binomial distribution.

The documentation isn't entirely clear to me. Unfortunately, the documentation is a bit sparse: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.nbinom.html

This should be really simple.

Cornelius Roemer · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-11T14:54:50.937

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The relevant method is rvs which stands for random variates.

You can generate a single random number drawn from a negative binomial distribution like this:

import scipy.stats
scipy.stats.nbinom.rvs(1,0.5) # returns 2 (or other random integer between 0 and +inf)

edited Jan 11 '21 at 14:54

answered Jan 11 '21 at 11:52

Cornelius Roemer

this should be included in the post not as an answer. – Pygirl Jan 11 '21 at 12:17
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@Pygirl why? It **is** the answer. Or do you mean the link to docu? Sure, that could go either way. – Cornelius Roemer Jan 11 '21 at 12:43
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`documentation isn't entirely clear to me` in your post. `Unfortunately, the documentation is a bit sparse` in your answer. So I thought you have not found the answer yet. – Pygirl Jan 11 '21 at 14:14
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Gotcha, rearranged a bit. Thanks for the comment. – Cornelius Roemer Jan 11 '21 at 14:55

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