Update: since there were no objections regarding the deprecation of `stats.betai` and `stats.chisqprob`, we have moved forward with it. The functions will go through a normal deprecation cycle, so we expect them to be removed somewhere around version 0.19 For further details please refer to: - gh-2741 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2741> - gh-641 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/641> - gh-642 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/642> - gh-5017 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/5017> (PR) Cheers, Abraham. 2015-07-04 0:46 GMT-05:00 Abraham Escalante <aeklant@gmail.com>:

Hello all,

In continuing with the statistics module cleanup `stats.betai` and `stats.chisqprob` were identified as candidates for deprecation. These functions are basically just aliases, delegating to `special.betainc` and `special.chdtrc` respectively.

In accordance to gh-2741, the preferred way to use these distributions is via the corresponding `stats.distribution` function or by calling the `scipy.special` function directly.

If there are any objections to deprecating these functions, please voice them here so we can ponder and make a decision.

For more details refer to the following issues:

- gh-2741 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/2741> - gh-641 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/641> - gh-642 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/642>

For details on the PR refer to:

- gh-5017 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/5017>

Cheers, Abraham.