Create more accurate inflation

[chriskelly]

Current inflation is symmetric Gaussian since it was based on the code that made stock returns. Actual inflation follows a more positively skewed distribution as shown in the image below. Need to change code to make more representative inflation.

[chriskelly]

Using this guys code (which I don't fully understand), I'm able to get a distribution that looks like this. It's certainly much closer, though if I'm being picky, it doesn't show the same kurtosis as the original data.

[chriskelly]

Been trying to use this skewnorm.rvs function, but can't figure out how to use it or any other package in stats to generate data with skew, mean, st dev, and kurt at the same time.

[chriskelly]

Made skewDist.py from B.Poe's code that returns a distribution of requested size. Doesn't take into account kurtosis and seeing about 25% of values being negative inflation, which seems higher than it should be, though I haven't checked. Distribution still looks more accurate than normal distribution.