distribution module¶
Class to create a probability distribution from the OpenTURNS library.
The OTDistribution
class is a concrete class
inheriting from Distribution
which is an abstract one.
OT stands for OpenTURNS
which is the library it relies on.
The OTDistribution
of a given uncertain variable is built
from mandatory arguments:
a variable name,
a probability distribution name recognized by OpenTURNS,
a set of parameters provided as a tuple of positional arguments filled in the order specified by the OpenTURNS constructor of this probability distribution.
Warning
The probability distribution parameters must be provided according to the signature of the openTURNS classes. Access the openTURNS documentation.
The constructor has also optional arguments:
a variable dimension (default: 1),
a standard representation of these parameters (default: use the parameters provided in the tuple),
a transformation of the variable (default: no transformation),
lower and upper bounds for truncation (default: no truncation),
a threshold for the OpenTURNS truncation tool (more details).
- class gemseo.uncertainty.distributions.openturns.distribution.OTDistribution(variable, interfaced_distribution, parameters, dimension=1, standard_parameters=None, transformation=None, lower_bound=None, upper_bound=None, threshold=0.5)[source]
Bases:
Distribution
OpenTURNS probability distribution.
Create a probability distribution for an uncertain variable from its dimension and probability distribution name and properties.
Example
>>> from gemseo.uncertainty.distributions.openturns.distribution import ( ... OTDistribution ... ) >>> distribution = OTDistribution('x', 'Exponential', (3, 2)) >>> print(distribution) Exponential(3, 2)
- Parameters:
variable (str) – The name of the random variable.
interfaced_distribution (str) – The name of the probability distribution, typically the name of a class wrapped from an external library, such as
"Normal"
.parameters (ParametersType) – The parameters of the probability distribution.
dimension (int) –
The dimension of the random variable.
By default it is set to 1.
standard_parameters (StandardParametersType | None) – The standard representation of the parameters of the probability distribution.
transformation (str | None) – A transformation applied to the random variable, e.g. \(\sin(x)\). If
None
, no transformation.lower_bound (float | None) – A lower bound to truncate the probability distribution. If
None
, no lower truncation.upper_bound (float | None) – An upper bound to truncate the probability distribution. If
None
, no upper truncation.threshold (float) –
A threshold in [0,1].
By default it is set to 0.5.
- distribution
alias of
ComposedDistribution
- compute_cdf(vector)[source]
Evaluate the cumulative density function (CDF).
Evaluate the CDF of the components of the random variable for a given realization of this random variable.
- compute_inverse_cdf(vector)[source]
Evaluate the inverse of the cumulative density function (ICDF).
- compute_samples(n_samples=1)[source]
Sample the random variable.
- dimension: int
The number of dimensions of the random variable.
- distribution_name: str
The name of the probability distribution.
- marginals: list[ot.Distribution]
The marginal distributions of the components of the random variable.
- math_lower_bound: ndarray
The mathematical lower bound of the random variable.
- math_upper_bound: ndarray
The mathematical upper bound of the random variable.
- property mean: ndarray
The analytical mean of the random variable.
- num_lower_bound: ndarray
The numerical lower bound of the random variable.
- num_upper_bound: ndarray
The numerical upper bound of the random variable.
- property standard_deviation: ndarray
The analytical standard deviation of the random variable.
- standard_parameters: dict[str, str] | None
The standard representation of the parameters of the distribution, used for its string representation.
- transformation: str
The transformation applied to the random variable, e.g. ‘sin(x)’.
- variable_name: str
The name of the random variable.
Examples using OTDistribution¶

Fitting a distribution from data based on OpenTURNS