[SciPy-Dev] Adding non-parametric methods to scipy.stats

[Hans Dembinski]

Dear Warren, (Daniel in CC)

> On 18. Jun 2020, at 16:15, Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6/18/20, Hans Dembinski <hans.dembinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> since there was no reply to my first attempt, I am repeat my message. Daniel
>> Saxton and I are working on a Python library called `resample`, which
>> implements the bootstrap and jackknife. We would like to work toward merging
>> bootstrap functions into Scipy and it would be great to get some feedback
>> about this. We would be pleased to collaborate with people who are already
>> working on this in Scipy. We are both pretty decent programmers,
>> knowledgable about statistics in general and the bootstrap in particular.
> 
> Thanks, Hans.  We would be very interested in adding bootstrap methods to SciPy!
> 
> I might not get to it for a few days, but I'll take a look at your
> library and see if it makes sense to incorporate it into SciPy.  If
> anyone other SciPy devs can get to it sooner, please take a look!

that is excellent, thanks! The basic functionality is all there. We are currently working on refining the interface, the docs need more work, and we want to add more unit tests. Currently, the project is not at a quality-level fit for SciPy, but I am sure we can get there.

Best regards,
Hans