# Akash Vaish

Entity from Middle Earth

I was finally able to get #14764 merged, thus having implemented joint probability distributions on the master branch of SymPy. While I have made contributions to the stats module before, this was my first major implementation, and the first new feature I have added to the module, or SymPy entirely. I opened #14847 also, which contains certain other predefined joint probability distributions.

I also started working with compound probability distributions, and opened #14855. The PR implements a method to calculate the PDF of any random variable which may have one or more of its parameters randomly distributed. However, I believe several changes will have to be made before this can be merged with the master branch. The first decision that needs to be made is regarding the probability spaces of such distributions; whether it should belong to SinglePSpace or JointPSpace/ProductPSpace. As of now, with the code in #14855, the PDF expression of a compounded RV can be obtained as seen in the following example:

>>> from sympy.stats import *
>>> E1 = Exponential('E1', 1)
>>> E2 = Exponential('E2', E1)
>>> pprint(E2.pspace.pdf)
⎧           1                 π
⎪       ─────────         for ─ ≥ │arg(E₂)│
⎪               2             2
⎪       (E₂ + 1)
⎪
⎨∞
⎪⌠
⎪⎮     -E₁  -E₁⋅E₂
⎪⎮ E₁⋅ℯ   ⋅ℯ       d(E₁)      otherwise
⎪⌡
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