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product of functions

asked 2020-04-13 03:17:08 +0200

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updated 2020-04-16 09:03:20 +0200

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I just started using SageMath and I am trying to do something simple but I cannot figure it out.

I have a Gaussian function

mu, sigma, x, N = var('mu, sigma, x, N')
P(x) = 1/sqrt((2*pi*sigma^2))*exp(-(x-mu)^2/(2*sigma^2))

and I want to calculate the product of N such functions.

I tried

f = lambda x, N: prod([P for x in range(1, N)])
f(x, N)

and I got the error:

TypeError: unable to convert N to an integer

I works if I choose N to be some number, but I would like to get a symbolic expression output.

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A symbolic product in SageMath is currently not implemented, but you could take a logarithm and use a symbolic sum.

rburing gravatar imagerburing ( 2020-04-13 15:04:14 +0200 )edit
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In fact it is! I opened

to make this more discoverable.

slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2020-04-16 09:04:35 +0200 )edit

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answered 2020-04-16 07:09:36 +0200

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updated 2020-04-16 07:12:38 +0200

In Sage, sum serves both for Python sums and for symbolic sums, but for products we have prod and product.

Declare an extra symbolic variable k, and instead of

f = lambda x, N: prod([P for x in range(1, N)])

use

f = lambda x, N: product(P, k, 1, N)

Also, check your expression for P. Maybe you want this instead:

P(x) = 1/sqrt((2*pi*sigma^2))*exp(-((x-mu)/sigma)^2/2)
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