A fatigue-life (Birnbaum-Saunders) continuous random variable.
As an instance of the rv_continuous class, fatiguelife object inherits from it
a collection of generic methods (see below for the full list),
and completes them with details specific for this particular distribution.
Methods
rvs(c, loc=0, scale=1, size=1, random_state=None)
Random variates.
pdf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Probability density function.
logpdf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Log of the probability density function.
cdf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Cumulative distribution function.
logcdf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Log of the cumulative distribution function.
sf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Survival function (also defined as 1-cdf, but sf is sometimes more accurate).
logsf(x, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Log of the survival function.
ppf(q, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Percent point function (inverse of cdf — percentiles).
Expected value of a function (of one argument) with respect to the distribution.
median(c, loc=0, scale=1)
Median of the distribution.
mean(c, loc=0, scale=1)
Mean of the distribution.
var(c, loc=0, scale=1)
Variance of the distribution.
std(c, loc=0, scale=1)
Standard deviation of the distribution.
interval(confidence, c, loc=0, scale=1)
Confidence interval with equal areas around the median.
Notes
The probability density function for fatiguelife is:
\[f(x, c) = \frac{x+1}{2c\sqrt{2\pi x^3}} \exp(-\frac{(x-1)^2}{2x c^2})\]
for \(x >= 0\) and \(c > 0\).
fatiguelife takes c as a shape parameter for \(c\).
The probability density above is defined in the "standardized" form. To shift
and/or scale the distribution use the loc and scale parameters.
Specifically, fatiguelife.pdf(x,c,loc,scale) is identically
equivalent to fatiguelife.pdf(y,c)/scale with
y=(x-loc)/scale. Note that shifting the location of a distribution
does not make it a "noncentral" distribution; noncentral generalizations of
some distributions are available in separate classes.
Alternatively, the distribution object can be called (as a function)
to fix the shape, location and scale parameters. This returns a "frozen"
RV object holding the given parameters fixed.
Freeze the distribution and display the frozen pdf: