Sebastian Haase wrote: > (don't know how to say this for complex types !? Are here real and imag > treated separately / independently ?)
Yes. For mean(), there's really no alternative. Scalar variance is not a well-defined concept for complex numbers, but treating the real and imaginary parts separately is a sensible and (partially) informative thing to do. Simply applying the formula for estimating variance for real numbers to complex numbers (i.e. change "x" to "z") is a meaningless operation. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
