scipy package functionality constants physical and mathematical constants conversion methods fftpack discrete fourier transform algorithms integrate integration routines interpolate interpolation (linearcubicand so onio data input and output linalg linear algebra routines using the optimized blas and lapack libraries maxentropy functions for fitting maximum entropy models ndimage -dimensional image package odr orthogonal distance regression optimize optimization (finding minima and rootssignal signal processing sparse sparse matrices spatial spatial data structures and algorithms special special mathematical functions such as bessel or jacobian stats statistics toolkit the toolboxes most interesting to our endeavor are scipy statsscipy interpolatescipy clusterand scipy signal for the sake of brevitywe will briefly explore some features of the stats package and leave the others to be explained when they show up in the