Summary: The fit method of the distributions in SciPy does maximum likelihood fitting of parameters to data. This blog post gives a couple of nice quick example

Summary: The fit method of the distributions in SciPy does maximum likelihood fitting of parameters to data. This blog post gives a couple of nice quick examples. To see what else is available, one would go here: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/stats.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/stats.html