On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > 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.
I think I clarified the doc string enough that user that read the docstring don't get confused anymore. http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/docs/numpy.random.mtrand.RandomState.pareto/ At least the first part is explicit about it, the notes refer to pareto in general or pareto 1 (formula is for pareto 1) Josef > > -- > Pauli Virtanen > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
