brainpy.math.random.exponential#
- brainpy.math.random.exponential(scale=None, size=None, key=None)[source]#
Draw samples from an exponential distribution.
Its probability density function is
\[f(x; \frac{1}{\beta}) = \frac{1}{\beta} \exp(-\frac{x}{\beta}),\]for
x > 0
and 0 elsewhere. \(\beta\) is the scale parameter, which is the inverse of the rate parameter \(\lambda = 1/\beta\). The rate parameter is an alternative, widely used parameterization of the exponential distribution [3].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 [1], or the time between page requests to Wikipedia [2].
- Parameters:
scale (float or array_like of floats) – The scale parameter, \(\beta = 1/\lambda\). Must be non-negative.
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. If size isNone
(default), a single value is returned ifscale
is a scalar. Otherwise,np.array(scale).size
samples are drawn.
- Returns:
out – Drawn samples from the parameterized exponential distribution.
- Return type:
ndarray or scalar
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