On Jul 6, 2018, at 2:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
I would consider statistics to have similarities - median, mean etc are aggregate functions. Not really, more like reduce, actually -/ you get a single result. Histograms are also doing something similar to grouping. .(Yes, a few statistics apply to nominal and ordinal data too, And for that, a generic grouping function could be used. In fact, allowing Counter to be used as the accumulater was one suggestion in this thread, and would build s histogram. Now that I think about it, you could write a key function that built a histogram for continuous data as well. Though that might be a bit klunky. But if someone thinks that’s a good idea, a PR for an example would be accepted: https://github.com/PythonCHB/grouper -CHB -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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