13 Sep
2011
13 Sep
'11
8:05 a.m.
Steven D'Aprano writes:
I propose adding a basic calculator statistics module to the standard library, similar to the sorts of functions you would get on a scientific calculator:
mean (average) variance (population and sample) standard deviation (population and sample) correlation coefficient
+1 for these.
and similar.
I'm not sure about that. I immediately thought "how about bivariate linear regression?", but that's actually misleading in many cases. Doing anything more general is beyond the scope of "like a typical scientific/statistical hand calculator". On the other hand, well-commented code showing how to do the bivariate case would help people to implement more general cases. Ditto for other common tasks like chi-square tests.