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bug #31376: wbl (Weibull) function docs confuse shape and scale parameter

Submitter:  Muhali <muhali>
Submitted:  Tue 19 Oct 2010 08:02:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 21 Oct 2010 07:00:55 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks for the patches.  It made things easier. 

I modified some of the Tex equations to take advantage of fraction and exponent typesetting.  The changeset is now in the Hg archive: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/9cb5c0b7b43b.

Rik <rik5>
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Tue 19 Oct 2010 09:16:36 PM UTC, comment #1: 

How about submitting a patch to fix the problem?

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Tue 19 Oct 2010 08:02:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

The Weibull function docs obviously have shape and scale parameters mixed up:

"...Weibull distribution with shape parameter SCALE and scale
     parameter SHAPE..."

This bug has been around for some time now, such as

here, or

here, or

here.

Muhali


Muhali <muhali>

 

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file #21725:  wblcdf.patch added by muhali (709B - text/x-patch - Weibull functions with corrected scale and shape parameters (patch))
file #21726:  wblrnd.patch added by muhali (2KiB - text/x-patch - Weibull functions with corrected scale and shape parameters (patch))
file #21727:  wblinv.patch added by muhali (1KiB - text/x-patch - Weibull functions with corrected scale and shape parameters (patch))
file #21728:  wblpdf.patch added by muhali (2KiB - text/x-patch - Weibull functions with corrected scale and shape parameters (patch))

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2010-10-21 rik5 StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2010-10-19 muhali Attached File- Added wblcdf.patch, #21725
        Attached File- Added wblrnd.patch, #21726
        Attached File- Added wblinv.patch, #21727
        Attached File- Added wblpdf.patch, #21728

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