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Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 13:25:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [3.11] gh-104337: Clarify random.gammavariate doc entry
(GH-104410) (#104481)
(cherry picked from commit 88c5c586708dcff369c49edae947d487a80f0346)
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Doc/library/random.rst | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index c7620b03284345..3109343a3c52df 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -310,8 +310,10 @@ be found in any statistics text.
.. function:: gammavariate(alpha, beta)
- Gamma distribution. (*Not* the gamma function!) Conditions on the
- parameters are ``alpha > 0`` and ``beta > 0``.
+ Gamma distribution. (*Not* the gamma function!) The shape and
+ scale parameters, *alpha* and *beta*, must have positive values.
+ (Calling conventions vary and some sources define 'beta'
+ as the inverse of the scale).
The probability distribution function is::
@@ -322,7 +324,8 @@ be found in any statistics text.
.. function:: gauss(mu=0.0, sigma=1.0)
- Normal distribution, also called the Gaussian distribution. *mu* is the mean,
+ Normal distribution, also called the Gaussian distribution.
+ *mu* is the mean,
and *sigma* is the standard deviation. This is slightly faster than
the :func:`normalvariate` function defined below.