[SciPy-Dev] On deprecating `stats.threshold`

[Julian Taylor]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Abraham Escalante <aeklant at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As part of the ongoing scipy.stats improvements we are pondering the
> deprecation of `stats.threshold` (and its masked array counterpart:
> `mstats.threshold`) for the following reasons.
>
> The functionality it provides is nearly identical to `np.clip`.
> Its usage does not seem to be common (Ralf made a search with searchcode; it
> is not used in scipy as a helper function either).

I don't think those are sufficient reasons for deprecation.
It does fullfil a purpose as its not exactly the same np.clip, the
implementation is simple and maintainable and its documented well.
There has to be something bad or dangerous about the function to
warrant issuing warnings on usage.