RFC: add the Zipf distribution

kgryte commented 6 years ago

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This RFC proposes adding the Zipf distribution. Similar to other distribution namespaces, adding support for the Zipf distribution would entail a family of packages for evaluating the PMF, CDF, mean, median, etc.

Namespace: @stdlib/stats/base/dists/zipf Reference: @stdlib/stats/base/dists/*

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justin1dennison commented 5 years ago

I would like to work on this. Are there any tips or pointers for issues to keep an eye out for when working on the statistical distributions?

kgryte commented 5 years ago

@justin1dennison That would be awesome! I think as a first foray into contributing distributions, it would be better to start off with the Rademacher distribution (RFC 182).

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