Re: [Python-ideas] Users of statistics software, what quantile functionality would be useful for you?

2019-04-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 7:51 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The statistics module is soon to get a quantile function. > > For those of you who use statistics software (whether in Python, or > using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of > functionality would be useful to you?

[Python-ideas] Users of statistics software, what quantile functionality would be useful for you?

2019-04-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steven D'Aprano writes: > using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of > functionality would be useful to you? > > For example: > > - evenly-spaced quantiles (say, at 0.25, 0.5, 0.75)? Yes. > - unevenly-spaced quantiles (0.25, 0.8, 0.9, 0.995)? Rarely. > - one

Re: [Python-ideas] Users of statistics software, what quantile functionality would be useful for you?

2019-04-27 Thread Stephan Hoyer
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 6:10 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The statistics module is soon to get a quantile function. > > For those of you who use statistics software (whether in Python, or > using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of > functionality would be useful to you?

[Python-ideas] Users of statistics software, what quantile functionality would be useful for you?

2019-04-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
The statistics module is soon to get a quantile function. For those of you who use statistics software (whether in Python, or using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of functionality would be useful to you? For example: - evenly-spaced quantiles (say, at 0.25, 0.5, 0.7