[Numpy-discussion] Reminder: code freeze for bet at the end of the WE

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:37 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> OK. One more question: how often do the tests fail? I want to include a
>> >> note
>> >> to repeat testing if the test fails.
>> >
>> > I don't like this. I think the prngs should use fixed seeds known to
>> > pass
>> > the test. Depending on confidence intervals in the units tests is
>> > really,
>> > really bad style. Tests should be deterministic.
>> >
>> > S.M.
>> >
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>> The hypergeometric tests are on the support of the distribution and
>> should never fail. And the outcome is not random.
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>>  The test of logser with N = 100000 also should be pretty exact and
>> fail only with very low probability in the patched version. But again
>> this is testet in scipy.stats.
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>> I think Sturlas idea to find a random seed that differentiates before
>> and after will be better for numpy, and using only a small sample size
>> e.g. N=1000, since it's pretty fast. But since I don't have an
>> unpatched numpy version available right now, I cannot do this.
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> Done. Thanks for the fixes and tests.
>
> Chuck
>

Thanks for taking care of this.
I will run my scipy.stats.distribution test over it before 1.3 is
released and enable the tests in scipy trunk after the release.

Josef