{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257/events","html_url":"https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257","id":155593728,"number":257,"title":"qe.distributions -- A Python version of Julia's Distributions.jl package","user":{"login":"jstac","id":3887684,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3887684?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac","html_url":"https://github.com/jstac","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jstac/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/labels/wishlist","name":"wishlist","color":"0052cc"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-05-18T20:27:33Z","updated_at":"2016-05-18T20:54:05Z","closed_at":null,"body":"We all know that the interface to distributions in scipy.stats is horrible.  It would be great to have a subpackage with distributions that does what Distributions.jl does, with an equally nice interface, and numbafied routines for evaluating pdfs and generating random numbers.\r\n\r\nIt could be argued that this doesn't belong in quantecon but I don't care.  I still want it.  "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/comments/220154788","html_url":"https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257#issuecomment-220154788","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/issues/257","id":220154788,"user":{"login":"davidrpugh","id":2219562,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2219562?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh","html_url":"https://github.com/davidrpugh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidrpugh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-18T20:54:05Z","updated_at":"2016-05-18T20:54:05Z","body":"@jstac Agreed. Does it make sense to try for a straight port of the Distributions.jl interfaces? "}}