There's lots of possible datasets that one can add. For example, it might be worthwhile providing the NIST Statistical Reference Datasets, such as those for non-linear regression.

On 30 April 2018 at 13:10, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:14 AM Lars G. <lagru@mailbox.org> wrote:
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> On 29.04.2018 08:21, Robert Kern wrote:
> > I believe that one of the motivations for adding the ECG dataset was to
> > make some of the scipy.signal unit tests more realistic. Is that
> > something you'd like to forbid? On the one hand, if you're strapped for
> > space, you probably want to remove the test suites as well. On the other
> > hand, you do want to be able to test your stripped installation!
>
> Right now, the ECG dataset is not used in unit tests. Do you perhaps
> mean the benchmark suite?

Yes, I misremembered the comment about making the benchmarks more realistic as making the tests more realistic. Nonetheless, my point remains: a fairly reasonable motivation for have datasets are the unit tests, as statsmodels does.

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