[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats documentation

[Skipper Seabold]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:41 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, nicky van foreest <vanforeest at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> > >> Sometimes the parameterization in stats.distributions is "a bit
>> > >> difficult" to translate to the standard parameterization, example
>> > >> lognormal that regularly raises questions.
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>> > > Ok. Can we resolve this by making the doc-string more explicit, like
>> > > my example above?
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>> > Yes
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>> > >
>> > >> these are generic template numbers and could be replaced by
>> > >> distribution specific docstrings
>> > >
>> > > Ok. How about fixing part for part?
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>> > If someone is going through individual distributions, this would be
>> > very good. (My initial worry a few years ago was that it will be
>> > difficult to maintain 90 individual docstrings.)
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>> Sure re-using the templates is useful (except when they generate
>> incorrect information such as the wrong number of args and non-integer
>> args, etc.), but it seems like (to me) confusion still reigns here. I
>> don't know how the docs work anymore, but is it possible to have a
>> wiki-editable 'Notes' section for each distribution? I think having a
>> lot more information individually would go a long way.
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> They do (the distname_gen pages, as Josef pointed out), with the exception
> of a few discrete distributions.
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Ah good. The link didn't work for me, but I see it in the source now.

Skipper