[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats improvements

[Abraham Escalante]

Great, Thanks!

I think this will be invaluable for the scope definition phase which is
critical for me. Do you mind if I add you to the discussion on the issues
once I feel more adequately equipped to understand the specific functions?

Abraham.

2015-03-15 13:08 GMT-06:00 <josef.pktd at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Abraham Escalante <aeklant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Josef,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. I love to see there is some interest in the
>> project.
>>
>> I find very compelling your suggestion about *verifying against R
>> functions* and it sounds like a great use of my time to get more and
>> more familiarised with the `scipy.stats` module in general. However, I am
>> fairly new to the community, *do you have a good tutorial or interesting
>> reading on how I could start with that?*
>>
>
> If you don't know R already, then you should work your way at least
> through parts of some R tutorials, there are many but I don't have any
> recommendation.
> It's also possible to work through Rpy2 and look at ipython notebooks that
> use Rpy.
>
> For comparison with scipy.stats you mainly need simple functions, so you
> don't need to know a lot of the "more complicated" things in R.
>
> What I usually do is to search with Google or in R help for the name of a
> hypothesis test, for example, and then run a simple example both in R and
> in python and compare the results. If the results differ, then we need to
> check whether the R and python versions use the same options. algorithm or
> assumptions.
> At the current state of scipy.stats it is now unlikely that the difference
> is just a bug (except maybe in some corner cases).
>
> Josef
>
>
>>
>> The scope of the functions will definitely vary depending on the issue,
>> but I do not yet have the domain knowledge to be able to tell for each of
>> them, which is exactly why I find your suggestion interesting. I am going
>> to use the next few months to get up to speed and I would love some
>> pointers from interested community members such as yourself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Abraham.
>>
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