Thanks Josef for the confirmation and making your computer sweat ;) I have built current master *In [3]: scipy.__version__ Out[3]: '0.10.0.dev' the same story. apparently it is known to some degree -- ncf is skipped the unittesting: $> git grep -A 10 'TestFitMethod' scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py:class TestFitMethod(TestCase): scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- skip = ['ncf'] scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- @dec.slow scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- def test_fit(self): scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- for func, dist, args, alpha in test_all_distributions(): scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- if dist in self.skip: scipy/stats/tests/test_distributions.py- continue $> git show ba349771 commit ba349771afebb1473a961139570da770ada59032 Author: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com> Date: Tue Jun 1 07:59:20 2010 +0000 Add tests for fit method including fixing input parameters. ;-) :-/ On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
python -c 'import scipy.stats.distributions as ssd, numpy as np; d=ssd.ncf; d.fit(np.array([-0.03756533, 0.18115522, 0.06605958, -0.09195276, 0.06162608, 0.07139736, -0.1570828 , -0.11967677, -0.19186652, 0.29411319]));'
I only have 0.9.0, I forgot to kill the process and 1 hour 22 minutes of cpu time later it still hadn't returned. At least a maximum iteration or maximum function evaluation should have stopped it.
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