RFC: add the Rice distribution

[kgryte]

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This RFC proposes adding the Rice distribution. Similar to other distribution namespaces, adding support for the Rice distribution would entail a family of packages for evaluating the PDF, CDF, quantile function, mean, median, etc.

Namespace: @stdlib/stats/base/dists/rice Reference: @stdlib/stats/base/dists/*

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• SciPy

[CodeMaverick2]

@kgryte Can i work on this issue

[kgryte]

@CodeMaverick2 Yes, feel free to submit a PR adding a single package. Do not attempt to implement the entire namespace in a single PR.