scipy.special.erfc#

scipy.special.erfc(x, out=None) = <ufunc 'erfc'>#

Complementary error function, 1 - erf(x).

Parameters:

xarray_like: Real or complex valued argument
outndarray, optional: Optional output array for the function results

Returns:

scalar or ndarray: Values of the complementary error function

See also

erf, erfi, erfcx, dawsn, wofz

References

[1]

Steven G. Johnson, Faddeeva W function implementation. http://ab-initio.mit.edu/Faddeeva

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy import special
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> x = np.linspace(-3, 3)
>>> plt.plot(x, special.erfc(x))
>>> plt.xlabel('$x$')
>>> plt.ylabel('$erfc(x)$')
>>> plt.show()