I was thinking of the Cauchy distribution, with undefined variance. But
Augustin-Louis Cauchy had quite a few things named after him. I know best
Cauchy sequences as a construction of Real numbers.
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 2:36 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <
stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David M
On Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:34 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <
stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Mertz, Ph.D. writes:
> > > NANs do not necessarily represent missing data.
>
> > I think in the context of `stats` they do. But this is color of
> bikeshed, and I defer to you, of course.
>
> I have a
On 28.08.2021 14:33, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 8/28/21 6:23 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
>> To me, the behavior looked a lot like stripping NANs left and right
>> from the list, but what you're explaining makes this appear even more
>> as a bug in the implementation of median() - basically wrong
On 8/28/21 6:23 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> To me, the behavior looked a lot like stripping NANs left and right
> from the list, but what you're explaining makes this appear even more
> as a bug in the implementation of median() - basically wrong assumptions
> about NANs sorting correctly. The
On 28.08.2021 05:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 09:36:27AM +0200, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Indeed. The NAN handling in median() looks like a bug, more than
>> anything else:
>
> [slightly paraphrased]
> l1 = [1,2,nan,4]
> l2 = [nan,1,2,4]
>>
> statistics.me
On 28.08.2021 07:14, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> SciPy should probably also be a data-point, it uses:
>
> nan_policy : {'propagate', 'raise', 'omit'}, optional
>
>
> +1
>
> Also +1 on a string flag, rather than an Enum.
Same here.
Codecs use strings as well: 'strict', 'ignore',
