[Python-ideas] Proposal: add a calculator statistics module

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 12:03:53 CEST 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> One place I'd disagree with Nick, though, I'd like to see correlation
> coefficient and linear regression in there. They are common on
> calculators, and I do tend to use them reasonably often. Please save
> me from starting Excel to calculate them! :-)

I'm not strongly against those two, I mainly wanted to emphasise the
"start small and grow" aspect to try to keep the initial version
focused and maintainable.

Cheers,
Nick.

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