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

>>> 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()