Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:48:14 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: [clip] >> Ok I remember, Pareto is actually Lomax or Pareto second kind, and >> should be renamed. The proposal was to rename the current pareto to >> pareto2 and create a new pareto that corrects location by one. >> >> In the meantime I discovered that Lomax is actually nicer to work with >> than Pareto one, so it's mainly a question of terminology/names and >> documentation. Just calling it pareto is very misleading. > > That doesn't sound like something for 1.5.1. Can you think through the > naming issue and open a ticket so we can start rationalizing this for > 2.0? I'm thinking having pareto1 and lomax, or maybe pareto1 and > pareto2, and deprecating plain old pareto may be the way to go.
The documentation bit can be done, however, if there's a plan how to deal with it. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
