[SciPy-user] docstring improvement

Gary Ruben gruben at bigpond.net.au
Sat Apr 1 22:49:46 EST 2006


Just looking at Robert Kern's checklist from a user's p.o.v., it would 
be nice to add some simple (one-liner) function call examples to each 
docstring. This is something I think is lacking from most functions in 
scipy.

Gary R.

Robert Kern wrote:
> In the interest of improving the quality of the scipy.stats package, 
> I hereby declare April and May of 2006 to be Statistics Review
> Months. I propose that we set ourselves a goal to review each
> function in stats.py and morestats.py (and a few others) for
> correctness and completeness of implementation by the end of May. By
> my count, that's about 2.5 functions every day. Surely this is a
> reasonable amount of effort for a rather large payoff: a robust, 
> well-tested and thorough statistics library.
> 
> I have added a Wiki page describing the details:
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/wiki/StatisticsReview




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